“Both Americans and Israelis believe—we know deep in our bones—that if the Islamic Republic of Iran acquires a nuclear weapons capability, it will be an existential threat to Israel, to America, and to world civilization itself.”
I am perhaps being too generous to Big Chris in assuming that he’s smart enough to not believe such a grotesquely false statement, because the point of saying such nonsense is really to say “I LOOOOVVVVVEEEE ISRAEL!” And the point of saying “I LOOOOVVVVVEEEE ISRAEL!” before an AIPAC crowd is to say “I prostrate myself utterly before the almighty power that is AIPAC!” Because anyone who really cares for Israel, who hopes that she will prosper and flourish, hopes above all that this endless blather over the necessity to take out Iran and its fabled “nuclear weapons capability” will prove to be nothing but endless blather. Because nothing could so damage the cause of Israel as an attack on Iran, which would do nothing but poison Israel’s relations with the Muslim powers that surround it for generations to come. But if it would help them raise money, AIPAC is down with it. Because AIPAC is all about AIPAC, and not at all about Israel.
Afterwords
Notice that it’s the mere possession of “nuclear weapons capability”—Iran doesn’t even need to have a single bomb to bring the entire world to its knees, merely the hypothetical capacity to produce one, somehow, some day. And this is the dude who supposedly should have been the Republican nominee. Chris Christie, big fat idiot for the ages.
