Jimmy Carter, Arab Governments and the Jewish Bomb

The Former President, Jimmy Carter has been receiving much ire lately. His recent comments that Israel has approximately 150 nuclear weapons has resulted in a new level of it. The new logic is Arab Governments will now seize upon Carters revelatory comments as reason to pursue their own nuclearization and once again it is a slight of hand.

U.S. and Israeli fears has nothing to do with Arab Governments seizing upon Carters comments as justification for their purported strategy. The fear instead is Carters comments will destabilize Arab Governments all of whom in one form or the other contribute and do their share in maintaining the industrialized West interest. Arab Governments and the International community have long since known or suspected a Jewish Bomb existed, that Israel is nuclearized. The fear however is the Arab people who chafe under reactionary traditions will demand that their governments go nuclear, a status quo ante which will position Arab Governments at odds with their peoples wishes.

Islamic Militants will then have another political opportunity to broadly paint Arab Governments as lackeys which their militancy already sees them as.

The dance of pacification has always been a tenuous one and one has to be extraordinarily naive to actually think it's conventional tactic on display in Iraq by U.S. and it's shortcomings against cheap improvised explosive devices can stem or turn the tide of a reality that is perpetually tweaking facts on the ground and it's justification?

It was easier for Arab people to accept the suppositions of a Jewish Bomb, because the historical obligation to respond with the logic, what is good for the goose was in the abstract. Carter's comments has obliterated that sophistry.

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