Bone-Chilling Bernard Lewis

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Lewis, arguably the smartest guy in the world on these sorts of things, predicts that, if not stopped, when it is technologically able to do so, pursuant to its "apocalyptic worldview," Iran will seek to obliterate Israel with a nuclear attack, regardless of the facts that the Palestinians of the area would also be obliterated and Israel would retaliate with even greater force:

The phrase 'Allah will know his own' is usually used to explain such apparently callous unconcern; it means that while infidel, i.e., non-Muslim, victims will go to a well-deserved punishment in hell, Muslims will be sent straight to heaven.

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For people with this mindset, MAD [the logic of deterrence of Mutual Assured Destruction] is not a constraint; it is an inducement.