Iran president wouldn't commit suicide for his regime

Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is crazy but not suicidal. As well as denying the Holocaust, he now says that the United States was complicate in the 9/11 attacks. His saber rattling with his nuclear program is to cement his position as the Nexus leader of the Muslim world against Israel.

Ahmadinejad likes the idea that the world knows Iran has the capacity to create a nuclear weapon but he is not suicidal and knows that once he even tests a nuclear weapon, let alone fires one at Israel, it would be suicide for Iran.

All war gaming and studies demonstrate that a conventional first strike by the Israeli Air Force and/or the United States on Iran's nuclear program will have limited success and only delay for one or two years their nuclear program. The only way to take out Iran's nuclear program is multiple nuclear strikes. We need to make sure Iran knows that once they demonstrate they have a nuclear bomb, Iran's facilities will be blown back to the stone age by combined U.S. and Israeli nuclear strikes.

It needs to be clear to the Arab world, beyond U.S. or Israel's intelligence reports, that Iran does in fact have a nuclear bomb before an attack can be launched.

Ahmadinejad will probably start the design of a nuclear bomb but stop well short of building one. He knows belligerent talk bolsters his image in the neighborhood but that building a nuclear bomb would be suicide for his regime.

Col. William

Peterson

USMC, retired

North Liberty