Comments on: Links 6/30/09 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/06/links-63009.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:40:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dingojoe http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/06/links-63009.html#comment-49719 dingojoe Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:25:52 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/06/links-63009/#comment-49719 The idea of Iran being able to use a nuclear bomb to impose it's system on the world is not highly unlikely, it is impossible. The US with vastly greater economic and military resources than Iran can ever pretend to have was able to extend their influence to Japan and S. Korea and that's about it.<br /><br />Sowell is a bright guy but fanaticism negates intelligence ever time. The idea of Iran being able to use a nuclear bomb to impose it's system on the world is not highly unlikely, it is impossible. The US with vastly greater economic and military resources than Iran can ever pretend to have was able to extend their influence to Japan and S. Korea and that's about it.

Sowell is a bright guy but fanaticism negates intelligence ever time.

]]> By: Peripheral Visionary http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/06/links-63009.html#comment-49706 Peripheral Visionary Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:22:39 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/06/links-63009/#comment-49706 For one brief moment, I thought that Yglesias, for the first time I am aware of, actually had a point--it didn't last long, as I quickly realized that, once again, something was being taken badly out of context.<br /><br />Sowell's point on "sharia" was on the risk of Iran developing nuclear weapons and using them to impose its system on the world. That's a highly unlikely scenario, but not an impossible one; Japan, after all, is living in a capitalist democracy because the United States developed the nuclear bomb (which was precisely Sowell's point.) For one brief moment, I thought that Yglesias, for the first time I am aware of, actually had a point–it didn't last long, as I quickly realized that, once again, something was being taken badly out of context.

Sowell's point on "sharia" was on the risk of Iran developing nuclear weapons and using them to impose its system on the world. That's a highly unlikely scenario, but not an impossible one; Japan, after all, is living in a capitalist democracy because the United States developed the nuclear bomb (which was precisely Sowell's point.)

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