Intresting article, live and let live I say.
Nuclear Iran - Flimsy Pretext for Aggression
January 3, 2012
Far from causing war, nuclear weapons prevent war. Except when the West uses them as an pretext for aggression.
by Andrew Smith
(henrymakow.com)
I view the hysteria in this country over Iran's nuclear energy program with amusement.
Here we are holding the largest stockpile of NUKES on the planet--AND A HISTORY OF USING THEM--telling the rest of the world who can and can't have them.
To say this is hypocrisy at it's height is a gross understatement. It's out there in the stratosphere of hubris and arrogance. People forget that without NUKES, we would have had several more world wars after WWII ended.
If Russia had no nukes to DETER AMERICA, we would have been at war in a WEST against EAST conflagration.
Iran needs nukes beyond the obvious deterrent capability against Israel (which has NUKES) but also more importantly--in my opinion--nuclear power is a technology that cannot be ignored if a nation intends to stay on its evolutionary path of technological progress.
Abdicating that right of knowledge in the field of nuclear technology is condemning that nation to a second class status in the technological world. When Iran says it wants to build nuclear power plants for peaceful purposes and how its research on this technology is aimed towards peaceful pursuits as well, it's funny how the American media people dismiss that notion out of hand. Yet they know it was the study of atoms which opened the door towards advancement in the nuclear biology field and discovery of DNA.
ONLY America has used nukes on another nation. Israel has placed its future on the deterrence capability of it's nuclear arsenal. Pakistan acquiring nukes actually prevented another India/Pak war. They fought three times and once they acquired nukes, it seems deterrence works. They were nose to nose only two decades ago--with over a million troops a stone throw away from each other--and now seem to be talking more and on a political track to resolving their outstanding issues. Absent nukes in this equation, we could have seen war number 4 between those two adversaries.
How can we allow Pakistan, which aids the Taliban, to have nuclear weapons, but not Iran?
Iran has no choice but to pursue nuclear technology. Bush made that clear when he invaded Iraq. It's insane for any country in that region, evermore so for Iran, to have Israel with nukes.
And yet while India, Pakistan, Russia, and China also have these weapons--not to mention countries in Europe--but Iran--THE PROUD PERSIAN PEOPLE-- should be denied this deterrence?
Get a grip on your gullibility because the American news services are preparing us to go to war with Iran. You may wonder why? The Iranians are close to producing clean, reliable nuclear energy like the United States, Japan, France, Germany, Brazil, Russia, South Korea, Ukraine, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Belgium Taiwan, India, Pakistan, and about 25 other nations.
So why can't the Persian people of Iran use Nuclear Energy too? And even if they produced nuclear weapons, they could never test them without immediate detection.
If they produced nuclear weapons, they know they would be "toast" if they used them. Iran did fight back after we armed Iraq and Iran had to fight back, but besides that purely defensive maneuver the Persians have done nothing aggressive in 3000 years. Sadly we can't say the same for the USA, UK or modern Israel.
The genie is out of the bottle.
We need to get over it.