Posted on 11/16/2011 12:41:13 PM PST by seanmerc
U.S. leaders haven't spoken of disarmament lately. Why not?
Iran is on the verge of creating a nuclear weapon. This is bad news for the U.S. and Israel, who have warned Tehran against holding nuclear power.
The U.S. needs to step in and mollify at the crucial moment. Israel has been able to sabotage any Iranian progress in developing nuclear prowess, but no one has produced a key to a more peaceful route to reconciliation.
So where are the peacemakers? Israel wants the U.S. to step in or even lead the way to block Iran's new nuclear ambitions. Iran, which has seen several of its nuclear scientists assassinated in the last year, is on the verge of becoming a nuclear power. However, Israel is determined to protect its nuclear dominance in the Middle East - it is the only country in the region that has a nuclear arsenal.
The current crisis is on a fast track because Iran is continuing to build a nuclear bomb, even though they say their intentions are peaceful. The crisis build up, the world waiting for the other shoe to fall, is the talk of the town.
In 1981, Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear facility, sending several U.S.-made F-16 bombers to wipe it out. In later years, Israel blocked Syria's attempt to create a nuclear product.
There is little doubt the U.S. is totally complicit in the attempts to bolster Israel's nuclear monopoly in the Middle East.
After World War II, it seemed the world was ready for disarmament; there was much work done on plans to reduce nuclear stock piles. The former Soviet Union had developed its own nuclear arsenal. Many hopes were pinned on lessons learned after the U.S. had dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and then Nagasaki, in Japan. Those historic horrors led the Western world to begin serious negotiations on disarmament.
Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union recognized the need for arms reduction, and at the same time many scientists debated the morality of using nuclear weapons in war. Some scientists who had worked on the bomb had urged the U.S., before the Hiroshima attack, to bomb a lonely atoll in the Pacific Ocean, so Japan and the rest of the world might observe the power of nuclear warfare.
At that time, the U.S. military was convinced that the U.S. would suffer tremendous human losses in the Pacific theater, and President Harry S. Truman agreed and went along. There is no question that the bombing, devastating as it was, brought World War II to an end in the Pacific.
Russia then became a super power rival, matching the U.S. nuclear capacity. Many rounds of disarmament talks began. Afterwards, several countries developed their own nuclear weapons, including India, Pakistan and North Korea.
Israel began stockpiling weapons at a desert complex in Dimona. It was the world's biggest non-secret. The U.S. had made a pact with the late Prime Minister Golda Meir, never to say that Israel had produced nuclear weapons. To this day, American officials have refused to acknowledge that Israel is the sole nuclear power in the Middle East.
I asked President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton if there were any nations in the Middle East that had nuclear weapons. Responding to a question at a White House news conference, Obama said, "I don't want to speculate." Clinton and others also dodged the question, and not too deftly, but they preserved the official lie.
Israel has become the self-appointed nuclear watchdog in the Middle East.
The world is watching to see if the U.S. or Israel decides to attack Iran. But there seems to be more caution that did not exist in previous critical times.
Obama is preoccupied in the time-consuming run for re-election. It seems it is time for him to step in and calm the waters. Surely no nation wants to see a global war. There may be a way to work out a peaceful resolution with Iran. It's worth a try.
Yoo-hoo, Helen Thomas ping list members! She's at it again!
Thank God they are. They are doing it to preserve their own existance and to avoid the ISlamic madmen from obtaining that power.
Iran must be stopped, by any means necessary, from obtaining such a weapon. The US needs to make this abundantly and crytsal clear...to Iran directly as well as indicating to any nation that would assist them in doing so that they will pay a terrible price for so doing.
That's OK. Media figures have refused to acknowledge the nuclear arms of Israel have prevented another Yom Kippur type war in the region since the 70s.
So, what is this hateful, senile bag trying to say?
That we should force the Israelis to give up their nuclear weapons, that way we can pursuade Imadinahendjob to abandon his nuclear ambitions?
What happened to just have all of the Joos go back to Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and wherever in the hell else they came from? We’ve had a change of plans? I never get the memo.
I’m confused.
Isn’t she dead? How did she ‘say’ anything?
Not dead. Just smells that way.
OK, I thought she died last year. I must be thinking of..Molly Ivans?
Yeah, maybe. Ms. Ivins shuffled off in 2007, I think.
Hey! Stop that!
That’s a leading cause of macular degneration, detached retina and the heartbreak of psoriasis.
The love child of Gollum and an Uruk-hai.
OMG she is at again
Witch of the WH Press corps LOL!
OMG she is at again
Witch of the WH Press corps LOL!
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