{"id":2785,"date":"2006-05-24T07:22:53","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/a-warbot-lets-the-truth-slip\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T19:12:32","slug":"a-warbot-lets-the-truth-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/a-warbot-lets-the-truth-slip\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warbot Lets the Truth Slip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also commenting on the Iranian missile test is <a href=\"http:\/\/strata-sphere.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1856\" target=\"_blank\">The Strata-Sphere<\/a> (cute, huh?):<\/p>\n<ul>I seriously doubt Iran is so crazy they would launch missiles at US or Israeli targets (though I would not bet $1 on that premise), but the missiles do represent a very tough defense against military action by the West, whether it is pre-emptive or reactive.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the problem with a nuclear armed Iran.\u00c2\u00a0 If one of their bombs makes it to a target on the back of a suicide bomber, then attempting to deliver a response becomes a more complex problem.<\/ul>\n<p>And there you have it: Iran is bad, and bad countries\u00c2\u00a0are not entitled\u00c2\u00a0to self-defense. It&#8217;s not about Iran actually posing a threat to the U.S. or even Israel \u00e2\u20ac\u201c unless, as he ludicrously suggests, they&#8217;re going to take us down one backpack bomber at a time, while we fume and curse those darn medium-range missiles that prevent any counterattack.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the\u00c2\u00a0moral merits of the &#8220;bad people have no right to self-defense&#8221; argument may be,\u00c2\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0a geopolitical fantasy.\u00c2\u00a0No\u00c2\u00a0government in the world is going to say, &#8220;Yes, you&#8217;re right, we\u00c2\u00a0do suck.\u00c2\u00a0Feel free to bomb us without fear of retaliation.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0To think that they would, or that a constant stream of threats will enhance our own security, is to see the world through the eyes of a spoiled child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also commenting on the Iranian missile test is The Strata-Sphere (cute, huh?): I seriously doubt Iran is so crazy they would launch missiles at US or Israeli targets (though I would not bet $1 on that premise), but the missiles do represent a very tough defense against military action by the West, whether it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}