To a liberal, the worst two words in the English language are “Christian Right.” For left-wing secular humanists, these two words conjure up images of Old Testament Pharisees who want to establish a theocracy on earth and stone to death all those who fall short of its tenets. Some humanists even consider the Christian Right to be one giant hate group. Apparently there are a lot of Americans who agree. In recent years there have been numerous books published proclaiming the Christian Right to be a dangerous group of theological fanatics determined to force all Americans to live by their values. Several of these books became bestsellers. One that springs immediately to mind is God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by the late Christopher
Will Israel Nuke Iran?
27 Nov 2013
That's the question Micah Zenko poses at Foreign Policy. It's partly a rhetorical question meant to
highlight a perceived double standard in how Israel's nuclear program is treated
differently from Iran's--a double standard that isn't really one at all, since
Israel is a democratic country and not a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty
in any case. But it's also a practical question, because of the low probability
that normal air strikes would be enough to destroy Iran's dispersed, secretive,
and largely buried nuclear facilities.
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