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Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz
An anonymous reader writes "Famed academic Kenneth Waltz for years has argued that more nukes around the world create peace. Why? Because the more nukes are around, the more people are afraid to start a war with a nuclear-armed state. Peace seems assured with a gun to the world's head. In a recent interview, he argues that Iran gaining nuclear weapons would be a good thing. He points out that 'President Obama and a number of others have advocated the abolition of nuclear weapons and many have accepted this as both a desirable and a realistic goal. Even entertaining the goal and contemplating the end seems rather strange. On one hand the world has known war since time immemorial, right through August 1945. Since then, there have been no wars among the major states of the world. War has been relegated to peripheral states (and, of course, wars within them). Nuclear weapons are the only peacekeeping weapons that the world has ever known. It would be strange for me to advocate for their abolition, as they have made wars all but impossible.'"
even if they are aggressive colonizers.
A colonist is someone who goes some place where they have never been. Jews have been continually in Israel since before the time of King David and most of their holy sites are in Israel. So no, Israelis are not colonist. As for aggressive, of the many wars involving Israel the only one they started was 1976 when Egypt and Jordan were massing for an attack (after expelling UN monitors). If anyone is an aggressor it is the Arabs.
One interesting thing to note is that everyone notes the Palestinians who can not return to their land in Israel because they were on the wrong side of the border when the War of Independence ended (a war started by the Arabs to wipe out Israel). There are also a large number if Jews who can not return to their land in Palestine for the same reasons but they never seem to be mentioned.