Nu, nu North Korea
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shook her finger at North Korea on Wednesday, and rumor has it that Kim Jong-Il is just shaking in his boots. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirmed on Wednesday US commitments to allies Japan and South Korea in the face of North Korean threats and said she hoped Pyongyang could return to talks on abandoning its nuclear programs.And what might those 'consequences' be? Ineffective sanctions? A demand for more 'talks'? Another UN resolution?
Speaking at a news conference, Clinton also said that North Korea, which conducted its second nuclear test on Monday, was behaving in a provocative and belligerent manner toward its neighbors and there were consequences to such behavior.
Sitting in Israel, the scariest thing is how Iran is waiting for the West to react and seeing nothing but ineffectual calls for talk.
And while North Korea continues its saber rattling, Iran watches as its own nuclear program continues churning out enriched uranium that with time will be sufficient for nuclear weapons. Iran's own statements are far more troubling than those of North Korea, if only because Iran repeatedly calls for genocide of entire populations - destroying Israel and seeking regional domination in the name of religious devotion. There's absolutely no reason to think that Iran is going to give up its nuclear intentions.From our perspective, the economic toll is potentially the smallest one.
Even the diplomats think that the best case scenario is that the regime slows its production, meaning that it will simply take longer for the regime to have sufficient nuclear materials for weapons. It doesn't change the calculus of national security as there's no way to verify what Iran is going to do since it has most of its nuclear facilities buried underground so as to evade satellite detection and makes it extremely difficult to destroy should airstrikes be contemplated.
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Negotiating with these regimes has given them time to further their nuclear ambitions and perfect the technologies needed to build nuclear weapons, more time is not going to change the calculus in favor of peaceful resolution that involves a denuclearized North Korea or Iran. Both regimes will have nuclear weapons and the means to exact a serious economic toll on the rest of the world.
The world is in good hands, right?
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:46 PM
2 Comments:
Carl - I like I said, Iran has nothing to fear from the West - or from Israel if Israel is so stupid as to think the West will do anything to stop Iran. Mark my words, it will do nothing.
The world is in good hands, alright.
Heh
The lesson from North Korea is that Israel should, without one minute's delay, strike Iran...
The strike on Iran should be total..
All underground bunkers should be hit with nuclear bunker busting underground bombs...
Iran's oil, refineries, ports, major power stations, sub-stations, military industrial complex, governmental symbols & headquarters should be totally destroyed...
Nuclear weapons should take out areas of western Iran to destroy rocket fields...
Iran's cities should be hit avoiding population areas except where Iran has placed high value targets...
The Kurd's & Baloch should be armed asap, and given instructions to carve out independent national zones (Iranian kurds could incorporate with Iraqi Kurds forming an independent Kurdistan
The attack should be meaningful and not a pinprick..
It needs to send a strong message...
If you seek our destruction? You will die....
No more pissing around...
Take our the enemy WHILE WE STILL CAN...
If it makes you feel better, 9 years from now you can set up a "truth commission" and see if any iranians are left alive to talk to and buy them a coffee...
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