Originally Posted by kane

I get this information from the news. When was the last time some religious whack job from Alabama walked into a gay club with bomb strapped to his chest and exploded it? When was the last time we heard of someone from the Christian right killing their neighbors because they didn't share the same religious beliefs? Yes there are extremists everywhere. To me the difference is that in the middle east there are far more of them and they are far more radical than here in the US.

Also the governments of those countries are so corrupt that getting access to the nukes might be easy for the right people. I'm not saying that the government here isn't corrupt, I know it is. But we are pretty hardcore about protecting our nukes, and I'm not so sure they would be that way.

Also, last I checked our president didn't give a public speech saying that an entire country (Israel) and an entire people (Jews) needed to wiped off the planet.

I understand that our government may be trying to set the table to either continue their war in Iraq or start a war in Iran and they are telling us stuff to back up these claims. There are good things in Iran. For example Iran's population has the largest percentage of under 30 year olds of any country in the world. Many of these people are getting educated and are more forward thinking than the old guard. These are the people that will be running that country in the coming years and have a more modern country would help them to take it in a better direction. That said, all we need is for one nuke to get loose and end up being exploded in a major city and all hell will break loose in that part of the world