the more mccain tries to pull the
foreign policy experience card, the more i am convinced the guy doesn't know what he is talking about. can any reasonable person actually claim that iran poses as great a threat to the u.s. as the soviet union did during the cold war? the soviet union had enough nuclear weapons to kill every human being on the planet, and most of those weapons were aimed at the u.s. by comparison, iran has a nuclear program that hasn't advanced far enough to come up with a single bomb, much less a delivery system to carry it a third of the way around the earth to us. the level of threat posted by the USSR in 1985 and iran today are not even close. the soviet union was far far more of a threat to our country than iran ever has been. the only person with "reckless judgment" is the one who can't make basic distinctions like that.
the thing that is really odd is that a couple of hours after mccain criticized obama for pointing out that iran is less threatening than the soviet union was, mccain himself said the very same thing:
Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat. But the Soviet Union posed an added threat, he said. The Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one.
which is pretty much what obama said. so why is it "reckless judgment" when obama says it, but "straight talk" when mccain says the same thing?
UPDATE: just to emphasize the huge difference in magnatude of threat between the two, check out
mithras' comparison of iran and the USSR circa the mid-1980s.
