So, Will The Little Fella Next Need to Wipe Saudi Arabia From the Face of the Map, Too?

It's clear that Saudi Arabia has given Israel permission to cross Saudi air space as a part of an Israeli air strike on Iranian nuclear facilities (linked story at bottom). While the giving of such permission would seem highly counterintuitive on its face, it actually makes perfect sense, since I can't believe that too many of the middle eastern Arab nations really want to see a Persian nation controlled by crazy men to be nuclear armed. As the linked story states: "Despite the tension between the two governments [of Saudi Arabia & Israel], they share a mutual loathing of the regime in Tehran and a common fear of Iran’s nuclear ambitions."

All of this begs the question: Will The Little Fella, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, now feel compelled to express Iran's desire to "wipe" Saudi Arabia "from the face of the map," as he has previously threatened with respect to Israel? Will it also become necessary for Iran to wipe the entire Arab world off the face of the map? And will it eventually become necessary for Iran also to wipe most of the world off the face of the map (except, of course, for those friendly to Iran, such as Russia, Turkey (an actual NATO member), and Venezuela)?

I think history has shown that when one country starts with the ambition of needing to wipe one nationality of people from the face of the earth, such ambition and perceived necessity will typically lead to horrific reaches well beyond that of even the originally stated sinister goal. Just as counter-measures largely grounded in appeasement principles have never worked historically in those instances, so too are they doomed to failure when it comes to Iran. Not that anyone in Washington listens to any of us stupid people living in Middle America, of course.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7148555.ece