Originally posted by: Stunt
I think you are bull$hitting your solution...if you don't say what it is, it'll be obvious you have nothing to propose except complaining.
What's wrong with complaining? Why does one need a solution to the underlying problem to justify the pointing out something that's wrong, or a bad course of action?
While I won't discount Iran tensions in the recent runup in the prices of gold, I personally believe that the
Gold/Oil Ratio is responsible for the prices we see today. As long as Oil remains at such high levels, the rise in the price of gold was inevitable.
Now Iran. Nation states can only be deprived of nuclear weapons when they themselves choose not to develop them. Canada, South America, Libya, Argentina, Japan, South Korea, Germany, etc., have all chosen this path, the only path. This is the wall that has stopped widespread nuclear proliferation, and is the underlying spirit of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It is no different in Iran. No amount of bombing will deter them from this cause should they choose to seek it; in fact, it is the belief of men such as myself that bombing them will only ensure that they do indeed seek the bomb, as well as hardening their resolve when they do have one. To keep Iran from having the bomb, you must remove the reasons Iran is seeking to develop one, if they are indeed seeking to do so, which hasn't been proven.
At this point, I'd like to add that Iran has not violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Under that treaty, they have the right to develop the means to enrich Uranium for nuclear power. They have yet to do anything wrong, and it is American and Israeli pressure that has brought this issue to the fore. If anything, it is the US that has undermined that treaty, by refusing to disarm, by rufusing to rule out a nuclear first strike on a non-nuclear nation, and by seeking to give civilian nuclear technology to a non-signatory, India. Understand America's hypocracy in this matter.
So, why would Iran want the bomb. The most apparent reason, although there are others, is obvious. As much as I detest nuclear weapons and proliferation, if I were Iran, then the logic favours acquiring one. Whereas perhaps America believed that in the invasion of Iraq that they would instow such fear into the heart's of their "enemies" that they would forever submit to America's whim, to nations such as Iran the implied message has been perfectly clear. If you are a weak nation, such as Iraq was, then America would walk all over you with nary a thought otherwise. If you are a nuclear nation, that would stay America's hand and you would be free from her influence. If you know the history of Iran, such freedom from America would be tantilizing.
The solution to this reason is diplomacy. America must restore diplomatic relations with Iran, must remove itself as the sword of damocles forever hanging over Iran's head. This will never happen. Not aslong as men who eschew contempt for international law and diplomacy control America. Not as long as America's citizens have such a perverted mind view and lack of knowledge and understanding of history that they blame Jimmy Carter for Iran's continued existance and hold the belief that they themselves are morally set apart above the rest, and should thus submit the world to their whim.
So, the actual solution to Iran is that we will have to accept the inevitable, and that we will have to live with one more nation living under the cold logic of Mutually Assured Destruction. If Iran nukes Israel, then they too will be destroyed beyond a shadow of a doubt by the Israeli counter-attack. That is the deterrent. The world will mourn and rage against the stupidity. If Iran gives a nuclear weapon to a terrorist organization and they nuke a city, then because of the nature of uranium and plutonium, that detonation will be traced to Iran's particular enrichment capabilities and they will suffer the nuclear counter-attack. That is the deterent. You may believe that Iran is mad and thus do not fear their own deaths or the absolute death of their nation and perhaps humanity itself, but, well, the same was said of the Soviet Union back in the day and yet we live.
More could be said on the subject but I've given my piece for the time being.
