Security Threat

Prompted by our previous class discussion and President Ahmadinejad of Iran’s visit to New York this week, I was thinking about world peace, war, nuclear deterrence, and crazy religious fanatics. Ahmadinejad has been the focus of the United States, since winning his presidency two years ago, by making outrageous comments and resurrecting Iran’s nuclear program. He has been deemed a threat to world security, but can any one person really be a threat to peace? It seems implausible for another cult personality to take complete control of a country without some organization or some network of countries to place them in check. Sure there are some renegade ringleaders such as Osama bin Laden, but he doesn’t run the whole show. (Obviously, interdependence has touched multiple networks and organizations…) Anyway, to make my point clearer, I don’t think that another world war is possible. No one person has any real power…like Ahmadinejad for example….he has some power, but definitely less than the U.S. really credits him with….chances of another world war happening again because of one leader are gone.