I just don't understand why Iran, Iraq, NK, or anybody...
would feel the need to develop nuclear weapons. What do you imagine that they think they could protect themselves from with nuclear weapons? Don't they know there is no Soviet Union anymore? What are these guys thinking?
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"