Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Gestures and Guffaws
Well, that's a help. Now the world knows, down to the last item, precisely how many nuclear warheads are in the American arsenal of nuclear weapons. "The United States and Russia, together, we have more than 95% of the nuclear weapons in the world. We have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world many times over", claimed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a United Nations conference on Nuclear Non-Proliferation.
Glad that's cleared up. She also spoke of Iran's "flouting the rules", speaking to delegates of 189 nations, some of which, unfortunately, support Iran...like North Korea, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Turkey, Syria, Austria, Indonesia and others of like mind such as Venezuela, Paraguay and Bolivia. Of course there was only one singular head of state to address the assembled, none other than Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, prior to Mrs. Clinton.
Whose too-precious speech about grave injustices done Iran which innocently seeks to advantage itself with a secure energy resource through nuclear attainment was hugely entertaining, and moving, as well. And although Russia has a greater number of nuclear weapons in stock than the U.S., it is the United States, not Iran-enabling Russia that gets the very blunt end of the Iran blame-stick.
The United States, Britain and France were moved to lead a walk-out before Ahmadinejad's speech, joined by New Zealand and the Netherlands, countries that have a vested interest in self-respect. They felt it unnecessary to sit, fidgeting while Ahmadinejad declared that possession of nuclear weapons is "disgusting and shameful". Which aptly explains just why the Islamic Republic of Iran is so anxious to obtain them.
He declares the innocence of Iran and the dire threats it struggles against in a desperate bid to sustain itself in a threatening world environment: "The United States has threatened to use nuclear weapons against other countries, including my country. The Zionist regime too, continuously threatens other Middle Eastern countries." The man's delirious fantasies and delusions mark him for the madman that he is, representing a lunatic clerical administration.
If an mentally-unstable head of state declares that a neighbour threatens it, while it is the actual state that represents the existential threat to the neighbour, why then, world powers must simply persuade the state innocent of conspiring to threats to submit to the mendacious slander of the lunatic one. Eminently good sense.
Former U.S. ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, who quit that august post in disgust, claims that President Obama is playing right into the hands of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by agreeing to discuss a nuclear-free Middle East, with Egypt. "All of us know this suggestion [of Egypt] relates to one country - Israel. The question right now is how much pressure he is prepared to apply to achieve his objective. If I were an Israeli, I would be afraid of the results of these contacts..."
Egypt's proposal linking the removal of nuclear weapons from Israel with the elimination of the threat from Iran to become a nuclear power has been received with great interest in Washington. Egypt's UN ambassador claims "Success in dealing with Iran will depend to a large extent on how successfully we deal with the establishment of a nuclear-free zone" in the Middle East.
As though accomplishing one end will result in success at the other end. Yet, the U.S. Undersecretary of State for arms control, Ellen Tauscher, has claimed: "The best chance we have to achieve a WMD-free zone in the Middle East is to reach an agreement on a lasting and just peace in the Middle East." Nothing to it, see? Success readily achieved through such a simple expedient.
The world can wait with bated breath to hear the refreshing news from Washington that it has decided to unilaterally destroy all of its WMDs in a free, goodwill gesture to the world at large that it has implicit trust in the good nature and kindly intentions of the entire international community, so much so that it is prepared to divest itself of MAD.
Mad, isn't it?
Labels: Israel, Middle East, United Nations, United States
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, May 04, 2010
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