Monday, November 14, 2011

Another Social Contract

Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren seems to like doing nothing about Iran's nuclear ambitions, mistaking doing nothing for "nuance."

The speech is the best part:

There is nobody in Iran who nuked Israel on his own. Nobody. You built a nuclear warhead out there — good for you!

But I want to be clear. You moved your nuclear warhead to Tel Aviv on the missile the rest of us paid for. You hired North Korean engineers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your underground factory because of contractors and anti-aircraft missiles that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding Green Revolution protesters would come and seize everything at your missile factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a nuclear missile and it turned into a terrific, smoldering crater in Israel, or a great idea to eliminate all Israel when you get more — God bless. Keep a big hunk of them in silos.

But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that nuclear arsenal and pay forward for the next Jew who comes along.

Ahmadinejad's social contract calls for more than nuance.