Ticker Is Right

Ticker posts an essay in which he makes some irrefutable statements.  He also carefully avoids using the "I" word.  We don't.

 

...any nation-state has every right, if it is sovereign, to pursue nuclear energy.  If you argue otherwise get back to me when you've forced Israel to divest theirs, which was acquired under clandestine circumstances (they stole it) and nobody has done a thing about it.

Why?  Because they can shoot, that's why.  The same reason that North Korea pursued it and has not been forced to divest it, nor will they be.  In fact North Korea has reportedly amended their Constitution such that any attempt to decapitate their political leadership results in an immediate nuclear retaliation.  Would they actually do it?  That's unknown, of course, but you really don't want to find out, do you?

Nonetheless the cold facts are that for the last 70 years or thereabouts a nation with nuclear capability is one that has sufficient deterrence to prevent anyone from tampering with its decisions on leadership.  You might not like this if you're one who believes they have the right to dictate terms to other nations, but national sovereignty is just that and you cannot defend your right to claim it while denying it to others....

Hard to argue with that, as we have one of the two largest caches of nukes on the planet.  Of course, the USA is the single most "good-guy" nation, too, right?  Or is it Israel?

Iran will not actually concede the point voluntarily no matter whether they claim they will or not, and bombing them will not secure the material nor prevent them from rebuilding their infrastructure.

...Iran is not a tiny little nation with no resources.  Their land mass is roughly half that of the United States east of the Mississippi and their population is close to 100 million. ...

Here's the nut-buster: 

...Are we willing to commit between 100,000 and 500,000 American troops to go quite-literally seize the nation and spend the several years required to dismantle all of this and take the material, then occupy it on an effective permanent basis or execute every single crazy Islamic person there?  Under what pretense would we justify that?  Do we have any hint that the rest of the International community would tolerate us doing it?  Will Americans sign up for it, be drafted (yes, that would require a draft and this time girls go too!) and be ok with tens of thousands coming back in boxes and bags?  No.

And everyone both there and here knows it....

Everyone except Lindsssssssseeeeeeeeey!, Huckabee, and some loudmouthed Fox jackwads who have not yet volunteered to suit up, grab an AR, and head for the battle they so fervently want YOUR kids to fight. 

By the way, if you think $6.25 diesel and $4.65 gasoline are expensive, try running the country on $12.50 diesel and $10.50 gasoline--if you can find it and are authorized to buy it.

Trump finally met a deal that he cannot artfully make.  It would be very smart of him to let Iran have the damn Hormuz (eventually there will be a workaround anyway) and let Israel fight its own damn war.  Maybe that will keep them from taking over Lebanon.