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The strange case of the nuclear cartel
Posted by Michael S. Rozeff at January 10, 2008 12:54 PM
Pakistan is in the nuclear cartel, even though it may fall into hostile hands at any time. But, according to Bush, Iran may not even approach the outer circle of nuclear knowledge that might eventually place it in the select group of nuclear powers.
Bush said: "Iran was a threat, Iran is a threat and Iran will continue to be a threat if they are allowed to learn how to enrich uranium."
(1) Iran already knows how to enrich uranium. It's almost common knowledge how to enrich uranium.
(2) Who is it that "allows" whom to learn what to do and not to do? Bush and/or the nuclear cartel and/or certain nations are apparently the keepers of the nuclear secrets and the enforcers. From whence came this authority? What determines who is a member of the cartel and who is not? Why Pakistan and not Iran?
(3) Was and is Iran a threat? To whom? I am more afraid that Bush is a threat to Iran, simply because the U.S. is stronger than Iran, because Bush has already attacked Iraq, and because the U.S. has declared that it has interests (oil and Israel) in that region of the world. I am far less afraid that Iran is a threat to the U.S. It has no known designs on this continent and no known or declared interests here. It does not have a military that could attack the U.S. It does not have nuclear weapons.
(4) The leaders of the world's states, the U.S. and Iran included, often cast diplomacy aside and engage in provocative actions and words. The sailing of warships near the shores of other nations, the maneuvers of speed boats, and Bush's rhetoric are all examples. A pox on all their houses. This is all part of their jockeying for power. Does any of it enhance the general welfare of their respective publics, the American people and the Iranian people? Very unlikely.
We live in a Dark Age in which we take such stupid and dangerous behavior of those in power as the norm. Many of us stupidly applaud the provocations and wish that they would end in real blood and gore. Why do we put up with such thinking? Why do we give our leaders the power to set off needless wars, to kill others and get many of us killed? Were the cave men this barbaric? Were the barbarians even this barbaric?
