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February 22, 2007
What Did You Think Iran Would Do?
Okay, the UN deadline passed, and reports are in that Iran has continued enriching uranium, some say at a faster rate than before the sanctions were announced.
Put aside your prejudices and ask yourself: wouldn't I have done the same thing? And especially if the main guy telling me to stop is the world's biggest nuclear power, and the only one to use that power against another?
We would be wise to consider all angles to this and other international scenes. I'm not saying that I want Iran to have the bomb; on the contrary, I wish we'd all throw them away. But the reality is that we won't, so neither will anyone else. We have to deal within that context, and stop pretending that bluster is going to be deemed anything but laughable. It's dangerous not to.
I do wish to go on record as saying that I hope Iran is able to develop safe, clean energy to help its people find better ways of life. If that happens, the chances that those people will adopt what we may consider as more "moderate" positions on things increases tremendously. Economic progress travels a lot farther down the river of Time than propaganda does.
International | By joe lance | 05:07 PM