The hubbub today is all about Iran firing off some missles that could hit Israel.

I’m rather confused by all this.

Israel has missles that could reach Iran, doesn’t it?

Indeed - we have missles that could reach Iran, right?

But Iran isn’t allowed to have missles with the same offensive capability?

Iran is obviously staging its war games with the idea of rattling the saber - letting both Israel and the U.S. know that it’s got the means to retaliate should it be attacked.

What - Iran isn’t allowed to retaliate if we attack it?

If there’s ultimately war between Iran and Israel, or Iran and the United States, it is virtually guaranteed that we, or Israel, will start that war. Oh, we’ll have some convenient provacation - Iranians crossing the border, violating Iraq’s “sovereignty” (as if), thus justifying our attack.

But the point is: We, or Israel, will drop the bombs, or fire the missles, first.

But Iran, itself a sovereign nation, doesn’t have the right to defend itself, or retailiate? Indeed - it would be a moral outrage if Iran were to do so?

Such a strange world we live in, where all our saber-rattling, and the actual use of force, is done in the name of peace - and only when the enemy does it that “peace” is actually threatened.