A few days back, I thought Iran blinked. In the wake of US warnings on its nuclear development program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter to George W. Bush allegedly proposing a way out of the crisis. But instead of a way out, the letter appears to be a re-statement of the history of 20th Century according to the victims of Zionism, and some loaded questions: “Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East regions is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not any scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations?
Of course, we don’t expect George W. Bush to respond to the letter, and engage the Iranian President on a debate. Right now, we know the US is preparing for the worse. In a short time, we might be looking at a US-led multi-country invasion of Iran under the pre-text of the war against weapons of mass destruction, the same blueprint for the Iraqi “shock and awe” show. The question is, how would Iran’s allies respond? Inevitably, the hawks among Iran’ s sympathizers would prevail, and soon we might be looking at World War III. The doves among us should now jump into this controversy even before the military thinkers could plot. For otherwise, we might be looking at the end of the modern world.
Bring it on!
ReplyDeletesorry to be a war monger marv, but no i don't think ANYONE has a right to Secret of the Stars that nuclear technology actually represents.
I believe America herself would gladly surrender the technology to permanent amnesia if she could.
For no one understand this better than her: not all the nuclear weapons in the world, not 26,000 warheads and the richest economy, can possibly save the world, if the Secret is already in the hands of Al Qaeda.
Remember Spiderman? 'With great power comes great responsibility.'
A discovery like nuclear power is a thing like guns. Everyone has "right to them" but you can't let just anyone have them, even if you hate their existence yourself.
The argument about "rights" and "equality" when it comes to nuclear weapons is like the old analogy of a bunch of folks locked in a dynamite shack. Does everyone really have a right to the knowledge of how to make matches? Does anyone?
Well said Rizalist. Had Rizal been alive, would he be thinking the same?
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