Currently the United States of America and the Bush administration want to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons at all costs including possible military intervention. The President of Iran has said that they will continue their nuclear weapons program so they have a deterrent against attack from other nations in the region. The Iranian President also says that Pakistan, Israel, India and many other nations well within striking distance already have nuclear weapons and the nation of Iran have the right to protect them selves. The Iranian President says that the world allowed Israel to have nuclear weapons. But actually before Israel crosses the nuclear threshold the Nixon administration planned on confronting the Israeli government on this issue and senior Nixon administration officials had discussed if it was even feasible to politically or technologically stop their program. Even the CIA was involved for possible intervention. Once Israel crossed the nuclear threshold the Nixon administration wished to set up ground rules to ensure that Israel would not use nuclear weapons against its neighbors do to all the conflicts of the time. We know from history that they did not use nuclear weapons on their Arab neighbors. Perhaps the question today is can we trust Iran with nuclear weapons, knowing full well that they currently sponsor international terrorist groups. Also knowing that they have already promised to blow Israel off the map. This apparently is a much different situation with Iran then when it was with Israel during the Nixon administration. Israel had the atomic bomb by 1967. The Nixon administration realized this was going to be a significant problem between 1968 in 1969. Henry Kissinger did a national security study in 1969 in how to deal with the Israeli nuclear advancements. Recently the Iranian President has stated that Iran now has the technology to make nuclear weapons and now that they have the technology they can never go back. Obviously the Iranian President is using a bit of history to help his case with the IAEA and the United Nations. To his credit Iranian President or should I say they uranium President does know his history however, he also is bluffing himself into a war by using these mirroring rhetoric statements to bolster his fundamentalist support while slipping in to his speeches such statements. The Iranian President is playing on his own chessboard and is not playing with the international community and the international community's rules. The nation like that which sponsors international terrorism can never be trusted with the nuclear weapons. The Nixon administration in July of 1969 had Secretary of State Elliott Richardson and Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard meet with the Ambassador to Israel to discuss an agreement with Israel on their new nuclear weapons. http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj06cohen In the current situation the hostile political intentions and ambitions of the Iranian President make negotiation nearly impossible, as the United States of America has a policy not to negotiate with terrorists and that would include the nation states would sponsor them. We seem to have a political impasse with Iran and it does not appear the bridge can be gapped without assistance or diplomatic help from neighboring Arab nations and major trading partners such as either Russia or China. It looks as if the United States of America and her allies will be forced to strike Iran. But when they do they will have to go after other assets besides just the nuclear weapons manufacturing facilities such as but not limited to all military offensive assets, long-range missiles and take out the large chunk of its military. War is inevitable and this situation is highly unfortunate. |
