I don't see Iran as Germany. That's a stretch imo
Originally Posted by UnderConstruction
I see them as a greater threat. All The Nazis had to arouse the masses into following them was Nationalism. Their disastrous defeat in WW-1, and the even more disastrous Treaty of Versailles turned out to be the perfect breeding ground for a Regime as evil as The Third Reich to rise to power.
The Religious Zealots and Thugs who controle Iran have a much bigger trump card. The promise of eternity in the good graces of Allah and his Prophet, Muhammad.
These people actually believe this shit, the whole 72 virgin thing, kill the infidels, subjugate the World in the name of Islam.
The thought of these apocalyptic minded zealots having a weapon that could indeed kill millions at a time is most un-nerving.
Keep in mind, we are not dealing with sane people here. We are dealing with a Country ruled by a bunch of Religious Thugs who offer what nobody else can........eternal bliss. And they can count on millions of brain washed "believers" to follow them straight down that path.
In a way, this scenario mimics the Japanese at the end of WW-2. As long as we were fighting enemies who really did not want to die for the cause, we could defeat them with conventional methods, ie, the threat of death.
That is how we, and the Russians, ended up with hundreds of thousands of Prisoners of war, the soldiers were not willing to die.
The Japanese suicide pilots changed all of this. Suddenly we were faced with a single man in a single plane being able to take out even our largest ships, and kill thousands of Americans. We literally had to come up with new weapons systems and tactics to combat this type of threat.
This is the enemy we face in all of these Fascist Theocracys. People willing to give their very lives in the name of their God, Allah.