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Originally Posted by afchic
The other thing that bears watching is how does Saudi Arabia react to this? There is no way in hell Iran is getting a bomb, and Saudi doesn't. So is there now going to be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East? What does that mean for the rest of us?
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That's what scares me as much as anything else here. The Middle East may unite against us on one side, but also obliterate each other in the process. It seems their mindset is so mercurial that the potential use of nuclear weapons by Iran, Saudi Arabia, et al would increase in proportion to the number of perceived enemies that were out there. I go back to this quote from "The Haj":
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"Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel."
– Leon Uris, ‘The Haj’.
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