Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Peace in our time - Neville Obama Date:   10/4/2015 8:40:40 AM

I agree that Putin would like to establish Russia as a Superpower, and to ressurect at least some of the former Soviet Union.  The reason I asked if you had seen 60 Minutes last Sunday was when he started talking about the fall of the Soviet Union and Ukraine and Crimea, his intensity and body language radically changed.  Russia has a lot of economic problems right now, and this move into Syria may be nothing more than an attempt to divert attention from domestic problems.

You know, people predicted disaster when Pakistan and India became nuclear powers and everyone was sure they would start a nuclear war. Well, it has been some time and that hasn't happened. 

I often go back to Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech.  It doesn't suprise me that nations would pursue nuclear programs when the leader of the free world proclaims that they are part of an "axis of evil".   Playing the devil's advocate, why wouldn't Iran pursue a nuclear weapon when they have seen the U.S. sweep into their next door neighbor, Iraq; destroy it's leader and plunge the country into turmoil? 

You are right, Iranians are Persians, not Arabs.  I do not believe that Arab countries will pursue their own nuclear weapons.   Don't forget that most of these countries did not exist as countries until the fairly recent past.  The bigger fear on their part is the spread of radical Islam, as practiced in Iran, than the thought of a nuclear Iran; I think they would be far more likely to seek an agreement with Iran than to launch their own nuclear programs. 

As far as this "end of times".... people have been predicting end of times since almost the beginning of time.  The Bible is subject to interpretation of whomever is doing the interpreting.  Remember that Israel did not exist as a country until 1947.