RE: Iran nuclear program... a "new provocation"
July 24, 2011 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 24, 2011 at 2:46 pm by Spectrum.)
(July 24, 2011 at 5:51 am)padraic Wrote: Iran is a sovereign nation is it not?
Putting myself in their place; The US ,or any other country tells us we cannot have nuclear weapons because of what we might do with them. My response would be to tell the US and anyone else to go fuck itself.
Iran is just dick swinging. Their government is acutely aware that if Iran used even one nuclear weapon on any other country, Iran would not be bombed into the stone age, Iran would cease to exist.
The US has been looking for an excuse to go to war with Iran for years.An excuse will be found about the time it is finished in Afghanistan..
Exactly. If they really were developing WMD's/Nukes, then why are they developing their nuclear program openly?
Also, do we have the right to disallow them the use of modern technology? Energy is a top priority in an industrialized nation (assuming that is what Iran wants).
I want to see the proof of these nuclear arsenals that the talking heads claim exist. It is easy enough to catch Iran turning this program into something sinister. It isn't as though Iran have the funding to build a monolith of a station underground solely for nuclear weapons. Even if they did, they would no longer have the resources to continue post-militaristic actions (you kind of use up your poor resources with an undetectable station). The only support of the talking heads claims that I have heard is scare tactics. I do not see a valid reason to believe Iran is planning to nuke everyone. What would that accomplish for them anyway??
I can however see them attacking Israel. I do not support Israel's narcissistic thuggery, but it would be bad for the U.S., as the U.S. would surely get involved. More debt, more resource-thinning.
Also, I am not so sure that there is only one faction within Iran. We seem to assume that all of the leaders are evil bastards who sacrifice their nation's resources to kill a few Israelites. It is perfectly possible for nationalists to overthrow the villains and initiate a campaign for the development of their country. Honestly, how reliable is our media in these matters? I rather not listen to the doomsday bullshit...
