A lot of bloggers are using the fact Iran photoshopped evidence of missile tests to draw an analogy to the administration’s claims with respect to Iraq’s stockpiling of WMD. The better analogy is to the Soviet Union, which featured papier maché missiles in Red Square parades to compel the United States to invest in unnecessary weapons. Iran’s propaganda concerns what missiles it has, not whether it is trying to acquire nuclear technology. To say Iran isn’t trying to acquire WMD simply because it doesn’t yet have a missile of a particular range exhibits faulty reasoning. It also overlooks the fact that firing a missile at Europe or the United States is not the only way Iran could deploy a nuclear weapon. There is also the possibility Iran could give fissile material to terrorists — the same ones it is already supporting in Iraq and Lebanon.
