Joy Reid Suggests Iran Having Nuclear Weapon Might Make Middle East ‘Calmer’

(Via The Daily Caller)

EXCERPT:

REID: “You know, maybe the Middle East would be calmer if there weren’t just — I mean, what — I spoke yesterday to a Navy veteran who is — who used to fly those bombers that they used to drop the bunker, the 30,000 pound bombs, and he was telling me, he said don’t be — don’t get it twisted. This war is not about a real threat that Iran posed to anyone. They don’t have nukes and they didn’t have nukes, and they weren’t making nukes. This is about a geopolitical push, the same way it was when we went after Mosaddegh, to make — we would rather Iran with a dictator who’s a puppet than a free Iran who could defy us and take the oil we feel entitled to. In this case, Israel wants to be the hegemon of the region. They want to be the United States, the big boy in the block, and have no competitors. And their biggest two potential competitors are Saudi Arabia and Iran. And so, the idea here is to make them the unquestioned superpower in the region. That’s what this is about. It is not about Iran imminently having nukes because, apparently, their two-week nuclear window has been lasting since 1996.”