War and those who wage it

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

In my example.

Me = Israel
Little kid threatening me = Ahmandejad (president of Iran)
Little kid's dad = Ali Khamenei (supreme ruler of Iran)
Gun = Nuke program

Ahmandejad does not have the say on whether a nuclear weapon should be launched or not, Ali Khamenei does. A duplicate key would imply that Ahmandejad would take control of the military without Ali Khamenei knowing, which I don't see how that fits into the example.

You are on the right track here in the sense of control of the military. The otherside of the coin is that the military is poorly controlled by the central government. There is a Autocratic side to it, the Imams, and there is the pseudo democratic side, Ahmandejad. The third bit is the military who is controlled by neither directly. That is where the problem is. Look at the recent clash with the US Navy or the taking of British hostages, it would not surprise me if the more radical elements of the military took unilateral action without approval from either of the other two parts of the government. This is what happened when the students and radical elements took the US Embassy, it was a unilateral action which the govenrment ultimately had to go along with.

On a side note I have actually no problem with the US Navy blowing those patrol craft out of the water the next time that happens.