While Shirley Leung shamelessly sucks up to Sheldon Adelson in an effort to convince him to build a state-of-the-art casino in Boston, most people are wondering whether he should be institutionalized for comments he recently made at Yeshiva University.
The biggest donor to Republican Party political groups said Tuesday that the United States should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran to spur the country to end its own nuclear program.
Sheldon Anderson, the billionaire casino mogul, said on a panel at Yeshiva University in New York City that an initial blast, targeted to hit only desert area, would kill “maybe a couple of rattlesnakes, and scorpions, or whatever,” according to video posted on the foreign policy news website Mondoweiss.
“Then you say, ‘See! The next one is in the middle of Tehran. So, we mean business. You want to be wiped out? Go ahead and take a tough position and continue with your nuclear development.”
That’s a serious gangster mentality right there, if you ask me. It’s not like the Iranians are unaware of what a thermonuclear explosion will do if one occurs in their desert, capital, or some Pacific atoll. They don’t need a demonstration.
They already know that we have nuclear weapons, and they know that Israel has them, too. I honestly have some difficulty understanding why Israel and some of its right-wing supporters are so preoccupied with Iran. I don’t really understand why Saudi Arabia is freaking out so much, either. They both seem absurdly invested in the maintenance of a hostile relationship between America and Iran.
