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Re: True Believer
Reader comment on item: How Israel Can Win
in response to reader comment: the meaning of deterrence

Submitted by Bryan Jackson (Canada), Apr 18, 2006 at 20:16

Israel already has a nuclear deterrent. They haven't openly announced it, but I am 100% sure they could destroy the entire nation of Iran if they wanted to.

My point was to the guy that said we should level Iran once and for all. That would just ask for a full-scale war, Islam vs. Christianity. None of us would get out of that one unscarred.

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