Milani fails to provide any backing for his claim that Iran's nuclear program is "just absurd" -- if it is so absurd, why did the program start under the Shah? If it is so absurd, why do other countries such as Brazil and Argentina puruse similar programs? Why has the price of uranium skyrocketted? There is a massive, worldwide interest in uranium, even in the US.

And the suggestion that Iran wants to be a "de facto" nuclear power with the "capacity" to build nukes is ridiculous. Any country with nuclear technology can be characterized that way. Also, the Iranians have offered to place additional restrictions on their nuclear program beyong the legal requirements of the NPT that would prevent even the theoretical chance that Iran could make nukes secretly -- for example by opening Iran's nuclear program to multinational participation. This Iranian offer has been widely endorsed by American experts, by the way.

Israel, Cuba, India, and Pakistan are the only nations that have refused to sign a Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Any nation that is not committed to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons poses a terrorist threat to the world. Putting lipstick on the pig goddess of Israel in the name of Jesus is not facing reality. Israel threaten everyone in the world, despite artful Christian dissembling and 666 ruses.

Laurence Vance, a serious Christian writer and teacher, offers a dramatic counterpoint. In his latest book, Christianity and War, Vance collects 79 essays on military and foreign policy. He spares no one, declaring: "Christians who condone the warfare state and its nebulous crusades against 'evil' have been duped. There is nothing 'Christian' about the state's aggressive militarism, its senseless wars, its interventions into the affairs of other countries, and its expanding empire."
The U.S., the most Christian nation on Earth, is also the most war-mongering nation on Earth. It's as if they've taken the Lord's advice, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God" (Mat.5:9), and reversed it for their national motto: "Blessed are the warmakers, for they shall be called the children of God, because they stomp every nation they figure is an enemy of God."
It's really pitiful that so many American Christians support the most unchristian thing imaginable, war, under the illusion that it's God's will and God's way. They're stuck way back in the Old Testament era, thinking that the U.S. is a modern Israel, performing God's will in the world and smiting His enemies, when the reality is that the U.S. is like the great heathen empires of old, smashing and burning, looting and destroying nations and people just so it can have its own way, not God's!
So many U.S. Christians put their allegiance to the state above their loyalty and obedience to the Lord, above His Word, above reason, and certainly above justice and truth and love! They get their nationalism and their Christianity mixed up and they think that serving their country, even when it's engaged in an unjust war, is the same as serving the Lord and fighting the battles of the Lord. They engage in carnal warfare, knowing so little about the spiritual warfare or the ways of the Spirit.Well, I can't do the subject justice.

The notion that Iran should be allowed nuclear weapons simply because Israel has them is absurd. Israel possesses these weapons for a clearly defensive purpose. Israel has been directly attacked three times by its neighbors in wars, plus it got hit with SCUD missiles from Iraq during the Gulf War. Israel has never used WMD, no matter the situation, and has never threatened to.

Iran, meanwhile, has threatened to destroy Israel on more than one occasion, and has always used inflammatory rhetoric when talking about the West. Iran directly supports terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah, and fuels the insurgency in Iraq. Iran has proven to be a far greater threat to peace and stability than Israel ever has been, and we must remember that when tempted to avoid confrontation. Confrontation may well be our reality, whether we would avoid it or not.

Ted.... your killing me. When are you gonna get that the united states is all about money. Sure the GOP acts like they are big christians but really they are all about the almighty buck. You talk about the battles of the lord. If god created everything and he didn't want all this war he would stop it. and don't give me that free will shit. Reading your comment shocks me; mainly because you cannot think of a world without a "man" in the sky named god that made the world in seven days and gets pissed when you break his ten rules. I am an american; i am not a christian. I do not like the idea of being lumped in with your ultra conservative agenda as a freedom fighter for god. The whole problem with america is that it wants to mix it's politics with it's religious backed minority poulation. Really, Iran is making a bad weapon that we made first, and if it wasn't for the muslim-jewish-christian interaction the whole situation would be be toned down to a regular conversation, instead of a series of religion based attacks on each other.
America goes to war because it is profitable to those involved, and funded by the average citizen. They just sell you the christian army bullshit because they know you will believe it. I don't understand why it's so important for us to be involved in all this insanity. At best we are escalating the situation, at worst we are egging it on.
I don't want to die in a nuclear explosion, but if it's so urgent to fix this problem, why can't we just talk with Iran? Because Bush is an asshole pretending to be a christian, and assholes don't like to have reasonable conversations. So he and his cronies put the rest of the nation in harms way by waving his dick at Iran and saying "You better stop trying to make OUR weapon or there's gonna be a fuckin'". I am so sick of all this religious bullshit that has proliferated in the last 7.5 years. We had a good economy and a decent reputation in the world. Now we have neither and your still worried about where the christians stand in all of this.
Pray at in your church or at home and keep that shit away from me, my government, my schools and my work. We will all be better off.

Sorry Marvin,
I think your ideas are all wrong but I shouldn't have insulted you. I apologize.
Susan