Oh My God She's Gone Totally Sane!!!!!!

Here is an article in which Christopher Hitchens warns, "For decades, we have wondered what might happen when or if an apocalyptic weapon came into the hands of a messianic group or irrational regime. We are surely now quite close to finding out." More or less par for the course, no? Except: he goes on, beginning with the very next sentence, to lay out a perfectly cogent argument for what would happen when or if such weapon came into the hands of said group, an argument for their behaving fully rationally.

He then proposes that the real danger of a nuclear-armed Iran would be the possible annexation of Bahrain, against which the would would have no recourse, as Iran could now engage in "nuclear blackmail." Among possibilities not entertained: that Iran wishes to deter the United States from military aggression. Cf. Iraq, Afghanistan, which in addition to sharing the unenviable quality of being targets for America's goofy martial ire happen to sit on either side of Iran. Cannon to the left of me, cannon to the right.

Also unexamined: the possibility that Iran is not in fact pursuing nuclear armaments.