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Leon_Figg3 -> RE: Iran not building nukes (12/7/2007 2:18:07 AM)
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Let me begin by admitting that I have not been following the situation with Iran as closely as others may have. What I have heard and seen tells me that the rulers of Iran have picked up where Sadam and his people in Iraq left off. They have established themselves as a nation to be dealt with. Intelligence concerning their nuclear program is as inconclusive, conflicting, and shrouded in mystery and double dealing as the intelligence that existed concerning Iraq's nuclear program before necessary action was taken to get questions answered.
Even if one is to ignore intelligence that Iran has ties to terrorist organizations, one can neither dismiss nor ignore the rhetoric from Iran's President Ahmadinijad concerning the United States and Israel (among other matters). By any stretch of the imaginiation Iran poses a threat and will continue to pose a threat to world peace whether we like it or not.
Whether we like it or not Iran and its rulers are a force to be dealt with. They know it. European leaders know it. The UN knows it. Politicians in this country, on both sides of the political aisle know it.
Yes, it would appear that we have set ourselves up to decide who is worthy to pocess nuclear power/ nuclear weapons. Why shouldn't we? Why shouldn't the international community expect that any country that develops a nuclear program, of any kind, also develops some kind of security/ control structure by which the rest of the international community could feel relatively safe?
Nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons/ technongy are too dangerous to merely hope that they will not be used. A country that has nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon technology must also have some kind of infra structure in place by which the urge to use such technology is controlled. There also needs to be some means to assure that such technology does not fall into the hands of people who will, more than likely, use that technology if given the urge to do so.
So far, there appars to be no such infrastructures, or security and control meassures in place in many, if not all, of the countries that we, and the rest of the international community, know have been or are developing some kinnd of nuclear programe.
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