Short Quiz Re "Is War With Iran Inevitable"
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:52 am
1. About what major Democratic Presidential candidate did “Face the Nation”’s Bob Shieffer, in his introduction last Sunday (Nov 11), say that he or she “appears to be just as belligerent/militant toward Iran” as the Republican candidates who “seem to be competing to provide the most emphatic sound bite that they will stop at nothing to insure that Iran does not obtain nuclear weapons”?
2. What will be the immediate reaction of at least 6 Arab nations in the Middle East (including Saudi Arabia and Egypt) if Persian Iran develops nuclear weapons?
3. What do Iran’s chief cleric, Ayatollah Khamenei, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad mean when they continually refer to Israel as “a one-bomb state”?
4. Do all good Muslims have a mortal fear of “The Judgment Day”?
5. Do good Muslims believe there is any way to by-pass “The Judgment Day”?
6. How many million Americans does Osama bin Laden’s fatwa require to be killed by nuclear weapons?
7. What is the crucial difference between the way the Founding Dean of Harvard U’s Kennedy School of Government proposes to deal with Osama’s fatwa, and the approach of former U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Chairmen Sam Nunn (D-GA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) in which Kean/Hamilton (9/11 Commission Ch & Co-Ch) concur?
8. How has current Sen Fgn Rel Ch & Presidential Candidate Joe Biden proposed to react to any nation whose fissile materials are used by terrorists in a nuclear attack on the U.S.?
9. Who do Stanford Prof. William Perry (Pres. Clinton’s Sec/Defense) and Harvard Prof. Ashton Carter (Clinton’s Ass’t Sec/Def for Intl Security Policy) believe should be in charge of coping with the aftermath of a terrorist nuclear attack on the U.S. – rather than traditional “first responders”? What do Perry/Ashton, in their proposal, take a swipe at?
10. How many suitcase-size nuclear weapons are missing from the old Soviet Union and presumed to be already in the hands of terrorists?
2. What will be the immediate reaction of at least 6 Arab nations in the Middle East (including Saudi Arabia and Egypt) if Persian Iran develops nuclear weapons?
3. What do Iran’s chief cleric, Ayatollah Khamenei, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad mean when they continually refer to Israel as “a one-bomb state”?
4. Do all good Muslims have a mortal fear of “The Judgment Day”?
5. Do good Muslims believe there is any way to by-pass “The Judgment Day”?
6. How many million Americans does Osama bin Laden’s fatwa require to be killed by nuclear weapons?
7. What is the crucial difference between the way the Founding Dean of Harvard U’s Kennedy School of Government proposes to deal with Osama’s fatwa, and the approach of former U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Chairmen Sam Nunn (D-GA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) in which Kean/Hamilton (9/11 Commission Ch & Co-Ch) concur?
8. How has current Sen Fgn Rel Ch & Presidential Candidate Joe Biden proposed to react to any nation whose fissile materials are used by terrorists in a nuclear attack on the U.S.?
9. Who do Stanford Prof. William Perry (Pres. Clinton’s Sec/Defense) and Harvard Prof. Ashton Carter (Clinton’s Ass’t Sec/Def for Intl Security Policy) believe should be in charge of coping with the aftermath of a terrorist nuclear attack on the U.S. – rather than traditional “first responders”? What do Perry/Ashton, in their proposal, take a swipe at?
10. How many suitcase-size nuclear weapons are missing from the old Soviet Union and presumed to be already in the hands of terrorists?