The Final Word
Neat how things fit together in the puzzles that represent human interaction. UN sanctions against North Korea include a provision that forbids their exporting of weapons anywhere in the world. In North Korea's case this is a disciplinary backlash against their IAEA-forbidden nuclear test explosions. In that of Iran, it represents likewise an admonitory discipline resulting from their intransigence revolving around their nuclear aspirations.North Korea has been inordinately kind to Iran, in encouraging its nuclear program toward nuclear weapons production. North Korea has extended its kindness toward Syria, as well. What distinguishes these countries is that they are all tyrannical dictatorships, all of whom represent a clear and present danger to their geographic partners, and by extension, to the world at large.
Pakistan stands as the original locus of illicit nuclear triumph, gratuitously assisting the others to nuclear achievement. Pakistan has long been recognized as a breeding ground for violent jihadists, as has been both Syria and Iran. Pakistan's heedless contempt of India brought it to the brink of collapse with its own Taliban now threatening the country's existence; echoes of the Middle East.
Shipments of armaments from North Korea to Iran and perhaps by extension to Hamas and Hezbollah have been apprehended in the past. Now, again, Thai authorities have seized a cargo plane which departed Pyongyang in transit to Mehrabad airport in Tehran, containing rockets, fuses, rocket launchers and rocket-propelled grenades. One can only wonder at those shipments that did arrive at their destination successfully.
The UN Security Council committee to which the Thai government forwarded a report on the incident is expected to forward diplomatic missives to Pyongyang and Tehran to request details with respect to the shipment. How very impressively, politely diplomatic. And how awkward for North Korea and Iran both of whom will simply shrug shoulders and then their backs.
North Korea, determinedly nuclear despite its impoverished state, earns over a billion dollars annually on its UN-deplored-and-sanctioned exports of ballistic missiles, readily sold to Iran and other Mid-Eastern countries. The UN and the world are on high alert over the dire and direct threat posed, particularly with respect to Iran's aggressive nuclear program.
Another country struggling with hard economic times stands ready, able and willing to sell missiles to Arab countries to enable them to make an effort, through more conventional weaponry, to stave off Iran's advances. The United States, through a U.S. Senate-approved bill is prepared to target U.S. companies providing refined oil to Iran. While at the same time earning $20-billion in arms sales to the region.
Israel is concerned with the imminence of Iran's success in miniaturizing a nuclear warhead to be fitted onto its more advanced missiles quite able to reach Israel, along with Arab states and American troops posted in the area - reaching even into Europe. "Our first goal is to deter the Iranians. A second is to reassure the Arab states, so they don't feel they have to go nuclear themselves", according to one U.S. official.
It is abundantly clear that Israel is the first target for Iran, for it has been stated often enough, as a goal of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The latest word from Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "The Middle East is the crossroad of relations in the world and anyone who has the last word in the Middle East will have the final say in the world as well. Now the question is who has the last say in the Middle East? Well, of course, the answer is clear to everyone."
Those words from one who feels clearly in the ascendancy, but who may in the end, be inviting calamity to befall his nation and his people.
Labels: Middle East, Technology, Traditions, Troublespots
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, January 31, 2010
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