Here is my recommendation for the Administration's new utility man:
Posted on 11/28/2005 5:02:58 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Russian is continuing to play a very dangerous game with Iran’s nuclear weapons program. If there ever has has been more obfuscation and technical misinformation about a rogue nation’s nuclear program than Iran’s, I can’t think of it. According to the Deutsche Press via M&C News, Iran’s nuclear delegation spokesman Javad Vaeidi said that Iran had accepted the Russian proposal to limit Teheran’s ability to enrich uranium. The article said that,
Based on the Russian proposal, which is backed by the European Union, United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran would be allowed to convert uranium at home in the Isfahan plant before sending the uranium to Russia for enrichment, in order to prevent any Iranian misuse of the enrichment process for producing atomic weapons material.
There is some doubt that an official proposal has been made by Russia, but if this is the true substance of the agreement, it is in fact, another retreat by Putin and the IAEA.
There is no reason for Iran to continue the conversion process and then go to the trouble to ship the converted yellowcake to Russia for enrichment. Enriched uranium was already being manufactured at the Novosibirsk nuclear fuel fabrication facility in Siberia for use in Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor. The spent fuel was then supposed to be shipped back to Russia for reprocessing. This was also a suspicious arrangement, since the spent fuel was to be kept in cooling ponds in Iran for ten years, which is not technically required, but would certainly give the mullahs plenty of opportunity to take advantage of the IAEA’s flawed inspection regime. That is, the longer it stays in Iran, the greater the chance it could be diverted for use in weapons development.
This earlier deal with Russia was fraught with danger, but the US publicly backed the arrangement in the hopes that Putin could keep some level of control on the mullahs’ access to nuclear material. If the US supports this newest proposal as the article says, then we must assume that we are resigned to a nuclear Iran, and will now rely on covert and overt military measures to pressure the mullahs and/or destroy key nuclear facilities.
The Russia – Iran Nuclear Pact is a logical outcome of the desperation of the former socialist nation. Russia and the EU are trying to revitalize their moribund economies by selling nuclear materials and providing atomic technical expertise to oil rich dictators. For Russia, additional pressure in the form of Iranian trained Chechen terrorists will only increase the motivation to solidify its nuclear pact with Iran.
And despite Russia’s abundance of natural resources, Putin has seen the handwriting on the wall when a nation opts to join the US-led alliance against global terrorism in southern Asia. Because of India’s pro-US vote in the IAEA Board Governors, Iran canceled its long sought-after gas pipeline deal with New Delhi. Fortunately, the US had already agreed to help build up India’s military and to provide technical assistance to assure the huge country of energy sufficient for decades to come.
Russia may be in such dire straights that it will cease to exist as a viable nation. For some reason though, it continues to make deals with Islamo-fascist dictators, instead of moving towards better relations with the US and its allies in the War on Terror. One would think Putin would ditch his decades-old Soviet geo-political playbook – and soon.
India for not referring Iran to UN - 11/21/2005
A very dangerous game; especially for ..........Israel. - tom
Does the Bush-Rice national security team put all of its faith in international negotiations and agreements?
Especially considering that Iran's new president has publicly staked his Mein Kampf agenda on the doors to the East River Gas Works.
Neville Chamberlain Redux is not helpful, yet we have New Tone as far as the eye can see.
The fifth column of Democrat legislative leaders and media propagandists saps the popular will, while the Islamist revolution is plotted and directed from Tehran.
The commander-in-chief is content to battle the shadows in Iraq, leaving the solid forms in Syria and Iran to their safe havens.
Will we be visited by an act of megaterror before we declare war and operate by its rules and suspension of same?
The hordes from the south include not a few undocumented Arabs--are they here to do the work Americans will not?
Foggy Bottom is in the arms of Morpheus while the enemy flows inside the wire like water.
Those questions are sure above my paygrade!
DPRK redux. When the chips are down the IAEA falls down on the job and the US are too cowardly to get in the rogues' faces. We should have smacked (using tools of war) the DPRK in 1994. The time for smacking Iran is NOW!
Treaties are like pie crusts ...
I had high hopes for Putin when he became president and in a way I still do. He's battling massive corruption and a bull headed system. Unfortunately his situation isn't going to change as long as he continues giving handouts to his society from the golden pot of Russia's huge oil revenues. The high petro-prices aren’t going to last forever! By doing this handout thing he's maintaining a welfare state and those tend to breed Mad Corruption. He's squander Mad Money... He needs to follow the line of Peter the Great but instead of building a world class navy on European ideas; he should build a world class economy on American ideas! Just a thought...
Bolton is inplace in the U.N. and can shove the UNSCR down their throats.
They and the misreable excreant Arab League have done nothing to enable U.S. security projection...nor have honored existing UNSCR.
U.S. bent over backwards and gave these malcontents Sinai,withdrawl to Golan,withdrawl from Lebanon,
Stay in Kuwait while Saddam butchers Kurds and anything else that catches his fancy.
U.S. brokered Europe on behalf of Russia for them to get oil/gas contracts when they were bust and staring at their own vomit.
China has flung every trade arrangement pledge back at U.S. and laughed.
The U.S. has been betrayed repeatedly on the world stage,
Its time to call in the credit note.
Weakness and indecision....in reality or percieved is a dangerous trend.
Washington is harming its Geostrategic imperatives by choosing negotiation and pledges.
The sheer financial payoff to placate the malcontents has netted the U.S. and Israel what?
No more negotiate with terror....nor more payoffs.
Judges 7:7 "I will save you and give the Midianites[Terrorists]....into your hands"
Here is my recommendation for the Administration's new utility man:
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