There’s MAD, and then there’s positively insane…!

For the period of the Cold War standoff between the USA and its NATO allies, and the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact nations, it is generally understood that the unofficial Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) Doctrine probably prevented nuclear war for about forty years. If you think about it for a moment, for this to even work at all required incredibly sane people to be in charge on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The ultimate decision makers had to have a clear understanding of cause and effect, and especially had to be able to conceptualize and understand consequences.

Now consider the situation in the Middle East. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads one of the world’s fastest growing fledgling nuclear powers. Just last October he said Israel, "…must be wiped off the map." Friday, April 14, 2006, he goes on to say, "…the Zionist regime is a dying tree, and soon its branches will be broken down." Can anyone make the case this is a sane person?

Israel recently added two more nuclear capable diesel electric submarines to its fleet of three, for a total of five. See Boston Globe news story These two new Dolphin class subs, “[Are] fitted with a new German technology in which the propulsion system combines a conventional diesel lead-acid battery system and an air-independent propulsion system used for slow, silent cruising, with a fuel cell equipped with oxygen and hydrogen storage,” according a very recent Jerusalem Post article. This makes them virtually undetectable.

According to a World Net Daily article, "While the European Union or United States could possibly absorb a nuclear attack by Iran's fledgling nuclear arsenal and survive, Israel could not." It goes on to say, "Neither could the status quo be maintained by the old Mutually Assured Destruction Doctrine that kept the Soviets and Americans at bay for 40 years. The Soviets were pragmatic enough to know that a nuclear attack on the United States would mean national annihilation. They could be trusted not to commit national suicide." "But Iran marches to an entirely different drum. Iran is motivated and driven by an Islamic-based ideology that glorifies martyrdom for Allah. This is why it is the wellspring of suicide bombers. This is one of the main reasons that Israel developed a last-resort nuclear-defense policy known as the "Samson Option." You will recall that when all was lost, Samson took down all his enemies with him in his death. "The "Samson Option" is an operational plan that can be implemented on very short notice. If Israel sees that it is about to be overrun or faces annihilation by weapons of mass destruction, the "Samson Option" will immediately kick in. There would be very little left of the Muslim Middle East after that."

Pure logic says to survive in a nuclear scenario, Israel has to strike first. For those that are wondering if the Israelis have the will to survive by using a plan that will require them to kill more innocent people than Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin combined, examine your heart and ask yourself this question. If my family and country were on the verge of annihilation at the hands of foreign fanatics impervious to logic, and I have the means, would I kill them, their families, relatives, friends, neighbors, and countrymen, and render their country uninhabitabital? I think very few would say no in answer to this question.