Taking down Ossama Bin Laden may or may not mean mission accomplished in Afghanistan, but the Taliban is stronger now than it was before Ossama was killed.
As we fail to note, someone like Ossama Bin Laden is the symptom of a problem but not the Problem itself. A military can kill people, but they can't kill ideas.
Meanwhile, back at the UN and its various member states. Per UN doctrine, any nation has a right to develop and use Nuclear power to generate electrical power. And Iran is doing exactly that, while working with IAEA unlike Israel that did it on the sneak.
Step one for any nation wishing to develop nuclear electric generating capacity through fission reactors is to purify enough Uranium to at least 10% or so U235 purity. To generate medical isotopes takes about 30% purity. To get to bomb grade material its got to be 96% pure U235. And Iran would be extremely foolish to dedicate all its centrifuges
to produce only one Bomb.
When the fast way to become a nuclear power lies in the reactor design options chosen. Israel choose a Very dangerous Chernobyl type breeder reactor that takes over 30% U235 enrichment levels, and every two years Israel gets enough plutonium off the spent fuel rods to produce quite a few plutonium powered nuclear weapons. On the other hand if the West forces Iran to choose reactors with much lower U235 enrichment rates, such nuclear reactors breed little or no plutonium while still being excellent for generating electricity. And are also far safer that Israel's one lone reactor at Dismona.
But then we must also look at the UN itself, as the majority of member states basically have an unequal vote or voice in the UN. And most of them question the whole idea of a security council that is a hold over from WW2 and no longer relevant today. Why should they accept domination by the USA and a handful of European countries who are now shadows of their former glory.
Iran may be a imaginary threat to the former domination, but if that domination can do it to Iran it will do it to them. Its why a Palestinian state is such a threat to the no longer relevant power structure, and why the former power structure is peeing their pants trying to prevent a vote on the Palestinian State question in the general assembly.
As it is, Western domination of the Arab oil supply has been going down down the toilet ever since Iran ejected its US installed turd of a Shah. And in the 30 years since, despite all efforts to get Iran back, now Iraq is totally wavering, and Saudi Arabia is far less stable than it appears, especially given the events of the Arab spring.
Now the USA and Israel are again pushing Iran into a very dangerous corner, while failing to learn their lessons of their past failures in the area. As US foreign policy has inevitable hurt the USA most.
Yep I am a US citizen too, and I am not a bit happy at our glorious leaders damage my country.
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