Rick Santorum sounds alarm over Iranian 'theocracy'

Author: Robin Abcarian
Source: LA Times
Date: 8 January, 2012

Rick Santorum does not classify himself as a warmonger, but voters are concerned over his stance on Iran and the potential nuclear weapons that it may posses. According to Santorum, living with a nuclear Soviet Russia and a nuclear North Korea was fine compared to a nuclear Iran for one simple reason, religion. Iran is a theocracy and as such religion and and institution are very much aligned with one another. Santorum states that it is a "...theocracy that has deeply embedded beliefs that the afterlife is better than this life .… When your principal virtue is to die for Allah, then it’s not a deterrent to have a nuclear threat .… It is in fact an encouragement for them to use their nuclear weapon.” I mean come on, it's not just the job of the U.S. to be a world policing force. If they want to do it, so be it, but until they actually start something, there is no reason to be fretting over it. I'm not saying to ignore it completely, but keep your options open. To further raise clout, he remained silent on whether or not he would go to war with Iran to stop any nuclear growth. This will hurt his support because this nation does not need to go to war so soon, and his silence shows that A) he may be unsure of what to do should the situation arise and B) that as a president his unwillingness to answer questions will come off as animosity between him and the populace.  

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-rick-santorum-sounds-alarm-over-iranian-theocracy-20120108,0,7144004.story?track=rss