J-Texas wrote on Wed, 09 July 2008 16:19 |
So, are you saying that we should tell them that it's okay to carry on with the ballistic missile testing as long as they promise to never use them on neighboring countries? And that it's okay to enrich the uranium as long as it's used for energy and they will never decide one day to use the technology to attach a nuclear warhead to those missiles? What happens when diplomacy doesn't work anymore? How do you know that there haven't been "talks" for ages? We know what we are allowed to know.
No. It wouldn't be hard for them to shut down the strait. It also wouldn't be that hard for us to open it right back up.
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Last time I looked, Iran was a sovereign nation, considerably older than ours, and not subject to US law or US political manipulation. In a free world whoever wants to build ad test any technology is free to do it. Of course if the world ISN'T free, and we are the group calling the shots (for now, China will be doing it very soon), then its a whole different story. But lets not have any of this leader of the free world and greatest nation on earth crap then. We defend freedom or we don't. Freedom means not imposing our momentary political will on other nations as we have of course done in Iran, time and time again. And lets not bitch when China imposes its will on us.
Its interesting that no one ever talks about international co-operation to use nuclear energy, with international standards available to all. Its all about controlling who has the right to it. The homemakers in Iran have the same right to it as ours do, and the generals in Iran have the same right to test ballistic missiles as we do.
Again, if we're not in favor of freedom, we really just ought to STFU about it.
DS