A negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis is within reach

The Guardian ^ | 6/19/06 | Noam chomsky

[Oshkalaboomboom]

The urgency of halting the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and moving toward their elimination, could hardly be greater. Failure to do so is almost certain to lead to grim consequences, even the end of biology's only experiment with higher intelligence. As threatening as the crisis is, the means exist to defuse it.

A near-meltdown seems to be imminent over Iran and its nuclear programmes. Before 1979, when the Shah was in power, Washington strongly supported these programmes. Today the standard claim is that Iran has no need for nuclear power, and therefore must be pursuing a secret weapons programme. "For a major oil producer such as Iran, nuclear energy is a wasteful use of resources," Henry Kissinger wrote in the Washington Post last year.

Thirty years ago, however, when Kissinger was secretary of state for President Gerald Ford, he held that "introduction of nuclear power will both provide for the growing needs of Iran's economy and free remaining oil reserves for export or conversion to petrochemicals".

Last year Dafna Linzer of the Washington Post asked Kissinger about his reversal of opinion. Kissinger responded with his usual frankness: "They were an allied country."

In 1976 the Ford administration "endorsed Iranian plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium the two pathways to a nuclear bomb", Linzer wrote. The top planners of the Bush administration, who are now denouncing these programmes, were then in key national security posts: Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz.

Iranians are surely not as willing as the west to discard history to the rubbish heap. They know that the United States, along with its allies, has been tormenting Iranians for more than 50 years

[Oshkalaboomboom]

One of the world's foremost America Haters once again crawls out of his rathole to spit his venom of America as bully, agressor, slaughterer of innocents. Worth reading just to see how intense his hatrred of America is.

[TSchmereL]

Where is the "Barf" alert?

[gcruse]

What a maroon.

[Lx]

Gotta love 'ol Nome. He always uses a $10.00 word when a $1.00 word would be less pretentious.

Hmm, The Guardian? I'm sure the NYT would allow him to spew.

[dead]

A third step would be to live up to article six of the NPT, which obligates the nuclear states to take "good-faith" efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons...

In other words, if the US would just give up their nuclear weapons, Iran would probably stop trying to make theirs.

The sickest thing is that this guy is considered one of the giants of science over there on the left.

He's their Moe, while the others are merely Larry and Curly in his presence.

[johnny7]

Worth reading...

Worth flushing.

[dfwgator]

Let's see, how did that last negotiated solution work out for ya?

[Diogenesis]

Chomsky [Democrat, terrorist, MIT]:
"They know that the United States, along with its allies, has been tormenting Iranians for more than 50 years"

THE REAL DEAL [Iran behind Islamic terrorism worldwide, including the attack on the World Trade Center]:

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Madrid

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"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith,
but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America,
and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"

--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998

Qur’an 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels.
So wound their bodies and incapacitate them
because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”

Qur’an 8:57 “If you gain mastery over them in battle,
inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them,
so that they would learn a lesson and be warned.”

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

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AMERICANS ON A BRIDGE IN FALLUJA BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMANS

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

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TORTURE OF AMERICANS BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMANS

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

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PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITIES

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on their terrorism has gone .........

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

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The War for Infinite Justice SHOULD HAVE BEEN ESCALATED IN 2001

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Russia at Beslan.

[Thombo2]

RE:nuclear power,"When the Shah was in power,Washington supported these programs."That much is true.What Noam fails to point out is the Shah wasn't trying to build a nuclear weapon.Furthermore the Shah was not hostile to the United States.This is classic Chomsky.Building an arguement based on misinformation and outright lies.Check out "The Anti-Chomsky Reader"'Collier/Horowitz.

[reagan_fanatic]

Iranians are surely not as willing as the west to discard history to the rubbish heap. They know that the United States, along with its allies, has been tormenting Iranians for more than 50 years

*Whew*

So, THAT'S why they kidnapped 52 of our citizens and held them captive for 444 days, provided funds to terrorists worldwide to attack and kill American citizens with and who now supplies terrorists in Iraq with the weapons and material with which to maim and kill our soldiers with.

And to think, I was actually angry at the Iranians about these things. I didn't know it was all OUR fault.


/sarc

[Reactionary]

"I didn't know it was all OUR fault."

Oh. It's always our fault. America is the only evil country to ever exist.

At least that's according to the Marxist fanatics on the Left.

[TSchmereL]

Chumpsky says:

"A third step would be to live up to article six of the NPT, which obligates the nuclear states to take "good-faith" efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons, a binding legal obligation, as the world court determined. None of the nuclear states has lived up to that obligation, but the United States is far in the lead in violating it."

But what is he talking about?

The United States is violating article six of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty?

This is an outright lie couched in a passive accusation!

The world court has "determined" that we have a legal obligation to make a "good-faith" effort to eliminate nuclear weapons?

And it is the U.S. and not Iran which is not making a "good-faith" effort to eliminate nuclear weapons?

Chompsky is a malicious liar.

[Richard Axtell]

Someone once quipped in a post about an article that should be written: "Noam Chomsky; Idiot or Moron?" Actually, the man is functionally very intelligent, just totally dishonest, and self-defeatingly so. Chomsky would settle for nothing less than the complete collapse of the West, period. Shame we couldn't just spin off some sort of "alternate reality bubble" and install him in it, give him power, and let him have his way. Instead of being hailed as the intellectual guru he sees himself as, the victorious jihadists would drag him out into the street and shoot him, unless they chose beheading. We could all watch and have a good chuckle, as the realization of what he had done dawned on his distorted psyche.