on nukes
The U.S. is again accusing Iran of secretly building facilities to create nuclear weapons. Specifically the New York Times reports the U.S. believes that a nuclear facility announced by Iran last Thursday is “far more ominous than the Iranians were letting on.”
President Obama was joined by French Presiden Sarkozy and Prime Minister Brown of Britain in a joint denunciation of the facility yesterday. Brown added “The international community has no choice today but to draw a line in the sand.”
Well there’s always a choice, Mr. Prime Minister. And you are making your choice by making such provocative and ambiguous pronouncements.
It’s ironic that some of the same pundits and politicians who decry Iran’s nuclear power program, are doing all they can to get the U.S. to build more nuclear power plants.
The U.S. today has literally thousands of nuclear weapons ready to launch at a moment’s notice. So do Britain and France. (Other countries possessing nuclear weapons include Russia, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and probably Israel.)
So it’s hardly fair to single out Iran’s nuclear program as justification for further sanctions and/or outright military attacks against that country.
But then again, what country in recent memory has been upfront about their reasons for invading other countries? It’s always to take out a ‘despotic’ leader or for ‘defense’. Same old, same old.