3 posts tagged “nukes”
The global community generally condemns the Bush Administration wish to prevent WMD quality nuclear enrichment from occurring in Iran. Well really I guess the global community does not complain about the idea of prevention, rather they denounce the Bush Administration call for harsh sanctions or military intervention to prevent a nuclear Iran.
The global community (particularly EU) did not learn the lesson of Neville Chamberlain: dealing with devils only stalls the inevitable. The “Peace in our time” pitch is a devilish lie to build an armament to achieve the political goals stated in public and in writings.
Here is a Jewish perspective from Arutz Sheva.
Victor Davis Hanson is a man I respect immensely as a pundit writer and historian. I am not so sure I agree with his good intentions of taking the slow route to reign in the global hostility of . Hanson presents a logical and well intentioned approach for America, EU and the United Nations to put the squeeze on Iran without utilizing military confrontation.
Hanson advocates a kind of united American and EU diplomatic assault on Iran through the vehicle of the United Nations slowly squeezing sanctions that Hanson believes will slowly constrict Iran’s compliance to global peace.
Hanson believes Iranian citizens will turn on the Mullocracy and Ahmadinejad if economic and living conditions became unbearable. Frankly I disagree. There is an obvious growing dissent in Iran, however for the most part Iranians have plugged into Shi'ite radicalism hook, line and sinker. We are talking about a regime that sent children as martyrs in the Iraq/Iran war to clear minefields. I doubt a little discomfort will shake Iranian support of radical Shi'itism.
The problem I have with this approach is that the EU is way too invested economically with Iranian oil to stand completely unified with America. Also, the United Nations Security Council has two permanent members with veto power that also are invested in the Iranian economy: Russia and China. That pretty much neutralizes the United Nations as a vehicle to squeeze sanctions successfully to the point for Iran to take notice. The U.N. sanctions (if any) will always be diluted to favor continued economic relations with Russia and China.
The EU is divided on Iran. Germany may be seeing the light (dimly) of Iran’s evil yet I doubt France would pierce the darkness of Iranian evil unless there was a diverted way to attain oil or Iran directly threatened French pride in some way. The British government is already invested in confronting Iranian evil yet there are a huge block of voters that may change that investment. There are many lesser EU members that adore American democracy since attaining freedom from the tyrannical slavery of the overtly Communist former Soviet Union. These lesser members are primarily from what was known in the Cold War days as the Soviet Bloc.
Hanson’s logic and intentions are sound. Hanson’s conclusions are doubtful to get off the drawing board to be executed.
Since Donald Rumsfeld has left the Bush Administration, there is the appearance that President Bush has been overwhelmed in a vigorous Foreign Policy. The President seems to have taken the 2006 election results as an opportunity to abandon being tough on rogue nations such as North Korea.
The President has made a deal that nearly mirrors President Clinton’s deal in the 90’s. The deal is based on trust and I am not talking about America’s trustworthiness. Just as the Clinton Administration made a deal trusting Kim Jong Il, so has President Bush.
America’s trust led to an insane nuclear micro-nation that utilizes WMD as blackmail to extort the Capitalist Western style nations into providing the necessities of life for North Korea. This is ridiculous for we all know that it is not the North Korean people that enjoy the largesse of Kim Jong Il.
So here is America again with a decision that will bite her butt made by a Republican NeoConservative President of all people.
I have some good old fashion conspiracy thinking as to why President Bush has made such a horrendous deal: the North Korean deal is all about Machiavellian politics. Strike a deal to put off North Korea until another day, and then strike Iran.
This will free up a military already hindered by a cut-n-run Democratic Party controlled Congress.
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Will Iran get the North Korea deal?
