Iran Situation

[ColinEssex]

So, would you say that in that situation, the policy of the UK government did not reflect the will of the UK's citizens?

Not many of our governments policies have anything to do with what the people want, our government is (partly) elected on what it has in its manifesto, then when they come to power, that all goes out the window and they do what they like. (like appointing sex offenders as teachers)
The US thing I mentioned was that people living only a couple of miles away didn't fancy having a series of nuclear rockets not far away. In the US you have them out in a desert somewhere - we haven't got that much open space here. Neither did we want to be blown to pieces because the USA had its nuclear stuff here.

Col

 

[jsanders]

Back to the subject.

The situation in Iran will get to the crises mode before this is over. No question about it, people are going to die over this issue.

So the question is. How do you stop nuclear weapons proliferation without large scale blood shed while still promoting the spread of nuclear fuel technology?

One has to really wonder what Iran plans to gain by taking this path. Most of the technical people involved maintain that the step in the enrichment process the Iranians are initiating is both costly and nonessential for the production of fuel grade uranium.

So that really begs the question. Why all the bravado?

If they continue down this path they will end up alienating most of the western world. Maybe that’s their goal. Maybe this is some attempt to reinforce the strangle hold Islam has on their county.

Who knows, but we better find out soon or Israel will take it upon themselves to deal with this.

Ensuring continued instability in the Middle East for the foreseeable future.

 

[Rich]

Ensuring continued instability in the Middle East for the foreseeable future.

The invasion of Iraq has already done that

So the question is. How do you stop nuclear weapons proliferation without large scale blood shed while still promoting the spread of nuclear fuel technology?

I don't see what the fuss is about, there's only about 50yrs uranium left anyway

 

[giovi2002]

well, iran and US are both fundamentalist nations reigned by religious insanity so if US wants to strike couldn't they better strike themselves?

 

[Rich]

if US wants to strike couldn't they better strike themselves?

that's not within their constitution anymore

 

[msp]

Lightly undertaking a war against a major opponent....while embroiled, then totally bogged down in an unwinnable war that was supposed to have been won quickly and easily, because one's technological superiority was not decisive, despite having casually provoked the conflict......Now the overriding need to secure the natural resources necessary to keep one's military-industrial complex going is becoming extremely pressing. You now find your major opponent in the region is menacing you and your attempt to secure those resources, so you strike, and strike HARD, at your opponent's iconic weapons of war which stand in the way of your securing those resources your country so badly needs - and deserves.






Welcome to the world of Imperial Japan, 1941, and the rationale behind the attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor - to clear the way for the invasion of SE Asia. Despite being embroiled in an unwinnable war in China.....
Worked out well for Tojo-san and his samurai, didn't it?