By what logic and hypocritical reasoning do those in their mangers bristling with nuclear weaponry deny like ownership to Iran? I mean no harm. I represent no pernicious and evil point of view; I merely ask the question. Surrounded by neighbours who by means fair, foul or at best of questionable skullduggery, have acquired nuclear arsenals, why should Iran not have the same right of possession? Does that aphorism about he who is without sin casting the first stone – and one is very well aware that stone throwing is not yet banned in that sad land of Iran – not apply to Israel, India, Pakistan and akin regimes further afield? Equally, and by what irrefutable reasoning, do the so-called laws of international civility and restraint not apply to Iran? Naively, I suppose, I fail to understand this warped judgment of denial. Furthermore, I suspect these same questions occur to many too afraid to ask them.
Tags: Politics
Of course! The ‘haves’ always dictate to the ‘have nots’ what they may or may not do – or have the living daylights bombed out of them. The Russians are doing the right thing by getting stuck in and showing them the way. This is what the west should be doing, not behaving like ill-bred bullies. Yes, I know. That’s an oxymoron, but it’s the barb that makes the hoot stick.
Art
One of thefundamental flaws of the concept of non-proliferation, it seems to me, is that it fails to avoid the impression that it’s a bunch of ‘haves’ telling ‘have nots’ that they can’t have. What makes this particularly odious is the high moral ground the ‘haves’ adopt, as I infer from what yoiu say, Art: we’re ‘responsible’ and would never use nuclear weapons irresponsibly (whatever that may mean), but we assume the right to deem who would and wouldn’t be ‘responsible’ The hypoccrisy of the West is unbelievable. Having foisted industrialisation on an unsuspecting world, becoming major contributors to global warming as a result and still unwilling to recognise they have to do something anout it sharpish, they’re tut-tutting about pollution in developing nations. It’s nothing short of breath-taking – and ultimately fatal – arrogance.