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William Pfaff
| Paris,
February 27, 2013 – A Gallup poll issued February 21 says that 99% of
the American public now has become convinced that Iran’s civilian
nuclear program will threaten “the vital interests of the United States
in the next ten years.” Eighty-three percent say this will be “a
critical threat.” Why? Because Iran in the next decade will rain down nuclear missiles on American cities from coast to coast? Or sacrifice its own survival by making a suicide attack on Israel, which possesses what may be the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world? Whatever the expectation, this fear of Iran in America is apparently now greater than the level of American fear of the Soviet Union – which actually could have devastated the U.S. with a nuclear attack – as reported by Gallup during the most dangerous of the Cold War years. |
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