When I'm in a situation like this I often try to go back to my own roots. I noted the passion you brought forward and the offence you feel. When I was 10 years old and lived in a little rural community, a car passed my home and there was scuffle going on in the back seat. All of a sudden a cloud of pictures came out the window. Like a typical boy, I went over and picked up the pictures. They were pictures that somebody had taken of a death camp, and the pictures, by their nature and what they showed, were probably pictures taken by the guards. One of them was of a person putting another woman on a sled and into the oven. I won't talk about the others, because they were pretty horrendous.
Dehumanization is something you talked about, that a person can get to the place where they can do that. And I'll remind people that we did it ourselves as nations. We were Japs, Krauts, geeks, gooks. Whatever war you're in, it happens. And I agree with you that the dehumanization is happening over there. We see it with Bahá'ís and with others.
I spent six months in Saudi Arabia in 1979, and even at that point I heard the U.S. called the great Satan over there. I saw some of that. But I also noted that it was a certain texture of bravado that happens sometimes in nations to keep their own people in line.
I won't go too far into the nuclear stuff--I may in a moment--but do you think the Iranian people, if they had nuclear weapons, would take the chance with the delivery of them? We know that Israel has nuclear weapons. We know there certainly would be a response. Do you think the Iranian people would take that risk?