Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Quotes
Today nuclear weapons are a blunt instrument. Problems cannot be solved through bombs. They are of little use. We need logic.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, Interview, Time Magazine, September 25, 2006
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This was in the middle of the Cold War and the political leaders had to face the fact that their major military nuclear weapons, as a practical matter, could not be used. The result was not only too destructive but retaliation would produce MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction.
Unfortunately, the Hezbollah part which controlled much of Lebanon was committed to the “disappearance” of Israel. Mr. Mahmoud’s government could not implement any solution that might be attempted because it was too weak to prevent armed militias from following whatever policies they wished without any regard for the Lebanese government.
Essentially similar ideas were expressed earlier by George Washington and in antiquity by Vegetius and Horace.
The President had asked for the views of the Joint Chief’s of Staff. At the time, the major U. S. defense doctrine depended on our nuclear deterrent which if used against the Russians would have meant mutually assured destruction since they had enough of a nuclear arsenal to destroy America as we know it.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Persian: محمود احمدینژاد, romanized: Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād [mæhmuːd(-e) æhmædiːneʒɒːd] (listen)), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian, is an Iranian conservative politician who served as the sixth President of Iran from 2005 to 2013. He was also the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in the country, and served as mayor of Tehran from 2003 to 2005.
