Yeah but it's such a volatile region that its troubles always seem to bubble over to the rest of the world. If it were some African nation it wouldn't be on the news nightly (how many African nations have geonicides and civil wars going on... and do we care?) why? Because trouble in Africa stays contained in Africa. African countries aren't hotheads with developing nuclear arms programs. The reason why the middle east is such a big deal is that if Israel keeps stirring shit in the region sooner or later the conflict is going to be thrown out of proportions, after all we're talking about radical religious figures, here. What if Iran gets ahold of a nuke, and decides it's time to stop dealing with Israel. They ignore international law and launch a nuke at some minor town in Israel (they wouldn't do it to Jerusalem or any such holy place) to demonstrate their potential. We'd go into another Cold War, no? Except this time what... 7 countries have nuclear potential?

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