Iran: the path to war
It is finally a certainty. Iran is going ahead with its nuclear program either we like it or not. And it is going to prove impossible to stop them. I thank Bush and Blair for that. Those idiots have spread their forces in Iraq so much that now they cannot effectively ponder military options in Iran.
Iran will have nuclear power. Their resolve, their commitment in this issue is total. If not why would Iran’s government be doing this?
posted by Anonymous at
10:07 AM
7 Comments:
Estaremos a passos largos para uma 3ª Guerra Mundial?
11:18 AM
Desculpa as minhas ideias tão negativas hoje.
Argghhh...estou péssima para consumo!
11:19 AM
This is reasonable under the UN's current threat. To transfer assets abroad is to make sure there is some wealth that will not be inprisioned by UN sanctions. Whether it will be used for nuclear proliferation is far from obvious. Recall the last case of UN sanctions on Iraq, stuff that was being outlawed included basic medical drugs!!!
11:53 AM
Not that sure. I think we tend to be chronically suspicious about these nations, what someone once called Orientalism. Iran never invaded anyone, never committed attrocities on its population, never shown any intent on aggression. It is true that their human rights record is far from pretty but they are nothing compared to some of their neighhours - saudi arabia or paquistan. It is far more serious that Pakistan was allowed to have the bomb, in fact they are the main exporters of the technology and they, at any minute can initiate war with India.
There is a moral issue that we in the west may not be registering. The peoples of the middle eas have been repetedly humiliated in the last decades, now they are being villified by the whole word as the craddle of terrorists and extremists. Iran is drawing a line in the sand, they will fight for their right to have nuclear power, they will not be bullied out of it. How many countries in the world have nuclear power? Why are they all allowed and not Iran? This is what they ask.
12:18 PM
It would be great if the entire world had no weapons at all...
12:39 PM
But who shares our values? Does the US? Does Israel and its apartheid? It is not the values that we share, it is interests.
I see no reason to condemn a country, and I would do the same for an individual, that has not incurred in foulplay. We are being taken in to accept this new geopolitical logic that it is alright to condemn, even attack, a nation and a people in preemptive caution. This is absurd and grotesque. They have done nothing, except through some rhetoric that is not uncommon in the middle east. The same rhetoric exists in Israel and there is actually leads to action, to walls, to political killings, etc; yet we accept it.
As for the historical comparision, anti-semitism and eugenic belief was the rule not the exception in early tweentieth century Europe, yet despite that rhetoric only Germany committed that appaling genocide, the others went their separate ways. The anti-semitic rethoric of Iran will only become dangerous if you villify and antagonise the country into action, if you bring it in to the international community those dangerous elements will be neutralized.
1:12 PM
Chamberlain was to afraid of war, and sought reassurance in a piece of paper. Hitler by then was already invading and was already stockpiling for war. No such thing is happening in Iran.
1:28 PM
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