Iran, Nukes, And The August 22nd "Doomsday" Dialogue

According to authorities, Iran refuses to allow U.N. inspectors in to assess their nuclear materials and capabilities. Tomorrow, there is expected to be some kind of showdown where Iran actively contests any attempt to monitor its nuclear program.

Tomorrow is also the much-hyped Doomsday date, a big deal in the Muslim calendar because it's supposed to be the day that Mohammed ascended into heaven. You no doubt over the weekend saw lots of video footage of Iran performing tests, making its military play war games in the event of an attack by the West (which would be us), et al. To me, it sounded like a lot of the drumbeat toward war we saw with Iraq, but on a much grander scale.

As I've posted too many times before, I don't see how the United States, with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world and growing exponentially under the Bushies, gets to tell other countries they can't have nukes. Personally, I would prefer NO ONE had nukes. But that aside, I just don't see how it's far that the U.S. can have the largest arsenal, that the U.S. helped Israel develop one of the world's larger nuclear arsenals when they aren't supposed to have them at all, and yet the U.S. and Israel can threaten an attack on Iran because Iran is now starting to develop them.