Robert Baer and Victor Davis Hanson: A Nuclear Iran - 4/4

Does Iran possess the ability to produce nuclear weapons? Both Bob Baer and Victor Hanson agree that it does. On the questions that flow from this assertion, agreement is more difficult to find. What does Iran hope to accomplish by developing the bomb? Can the United States live with a nuclear Iran? Can Israel? Israeli Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh in an October interview asserted "If no crippling sanctions are in place by Christmas, Israel will strike...if we are left alone, we will act alone."

Does Israel possess the ability to destroy the Iranian nuclear program?

With each month bringing another deception and diversion from Iran, what can the United States do to prevent a conflagration in the Middle East?

A classicist and military historian, Victor Davis Hanson is Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He is the author of many books, including A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. Robert Baer spent twenty years in the Central Intelligence Agency as a field officer covering the Middle East. Mr. Baer is now a journalist and author. His latest book is The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower.

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[BradlehAaron]

@shallbeagain I very rarely comment on my own vids, but I'm glad you've noticed this as well. Baer has more faces than Mount Rushmore. Ridiculous character.

[shallbeagain]

Bob Baer is a fuckin joke...listen to his other talks and interviews on Youtube where he sounds like a different person in different company.

[Marduniya]

@supruzr Your next mistake comes from comparing Sunni organization to the Shia organization of Hezbollah. The psyche of these two sects differ drastically. Hezbollah is much more professional, sophisticated, and intelligent than your average Sunni organization, such as al-Qaeda; they are even a member of the government due to Iranian influence.

If you want stability in Iraq and Afghanistan, you must talk to Iran.

[Marduniya]

@supruzr Your problem lies in your comparison the actions of a state such as Iran to a rag-tag group like al-Qaeda. Iran's support for pro-Iranian militias in the region has not been established in a quest for mindless suicide attacks of no strategic value; in fact, after Hamas came under Iranian influence, suicide attacks by Hamas began to become rarer, let alone the fact that Hezbollah almost never uses suicide bombing as a war strategy.

[LASuperboy]

3:32 robert predicted egypt's fall perfectly

[demmylowther]

I wouldn't worry about Japan either.I don't think The USA does enough to strengthen FRIENDSHIPS between some of the countries we should be. I think we should work hard (without looking like we are kissing ass)to become allies with Russia.What's the big problem,pride?We are all humans with the same wants and needs.The men need Pussy,and good Booze,and the woman need their shopping allowance. That is pretty much universal,well unless your a fag.

[IloveVitoria2009]

00:37 man that was a Loud noise.. lol

[supruzr]

How can the United States make concessions to Iran and begin to treat them as equals without simultaneously encouraging Sunni terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda? The Wahhabis will only see that Iran's terrorist tactics earned them legitimacy, and will conclude that it's a valid way to negotiate with the US.

Iran would have to be willing to devote its intelligence apparatus to tracking and breaking up Sunni terrorism in the region. It couldn't credibly do that and still maintain Hezbollah.

[bztheman]

@mamba9999 As an Iranian, I can tell you that his questions are spot-on. Iran is a sensitive issue in the US, something they don't like to speak publicly about. Also, the two interviewees (esp Baer) are among the handful of people in the world who are knowledgeable on the true state of the middle-east - even more than middle-easterners. These guys realize that Iran has the region in its palm, is nowhere close to crumbling, but is also not suicidal enough to mount any direct offensives.

[bztheman]

@stama9 Great comment. Here's my response - Baer is correct that the US is tightly attached to Israel. Yes, the US needs to support Israel at a high cost, just like Saudi Arabia. Both Saudis and the Jews have major investments in the US, friends in the US government, and so informal seats of power. Like it or not, many of the US leaders are puppets to wealthy families/factions in the middle east.