The ghost of Neville Chamberlain
December 5th 2007 05:04
So yesterday it was announced that Iran is no longer in the market of producing nuclear weapons. Isn't that a relief! Mr. Amenihijad has just been playing with us all the time about wiping Israel off the map. I'm sure deep down inside he really loves the Jews and this is his way of showing it...by not making any more of those bad weapons!
Seriously, I have a major problem with the intelligence that says the Iranians stopped their weapons programme in 2003. This whole situation reminds me of Neville Chamberlain stepping off the plane in 1938 waving a piece of paper and declaring "We shall have peace in our time". I don't need to remind you of what happened the next year. If the intelligence was so wrong and so out of date to send the US into Iraq what does it say about this document, which by the way is only 2 pages out of over 150. But it doesn't seem to matter about the fine print these days, just the headline. Usually we buy the magazine/newspaper for the headline but then find out that what we thought we were going to read is something totally different from the actual story.
Mr. Bush (despite having the wrong intel in 2001) which sent the US into Iraq is not silly enough to make the same mistake by believing that the information received could also be wrong. If it is, and I pray that it isn't, it would not only be naive but also would be the costliest mistake of his Presidency to believe that the Iranians have stopped completely, or don't have it in mind to make nuclear weapons. The whole point is that they shouldn't be in any position to be enriching uranium to have nuclear capabilities in the first place. If the world sits on it's hands and simply believes that Iran has come to it's senses and won't be continuing to build its nuclear capabilities just remember Neville Chamberlain's words in 1938.
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