Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Getting Rid of Weapons and Governments

OUR SHINY NEW atomic bomb treaty is everyone's pride and joy, except for American conservatives, the nation of Israel, and a few of Iran's neighbors, understandably. The treaty's opponents might all prefer that the U.S. drop an atomic bomb or two on Tehran. Like Obama said, military action is the only alternative to diplomacy, and is that what we really want? hardly, I should think. As Obama pointed out, the Americans who oppose diplomacy with Iran favored war with Iraq twenty five years ago, and said it would not last long. Our conservative American colleagues despise Obama so much that they automatically oppose everything he does, no matter what, even things they would agree with if done by a republican. Can't we all just get along? The Iranian people are fundamentally warm and friendly, and good, and don't like their own government. the American people are basically goodhearted, and don't like their own government. So don't we the people simply bypass our own governments, and make peace, not war, right here on the internet? Forget the pompous politicians! They seek only to serve their own personal interests. A universal brother-sisterhood of the common human,entirely aside from normal national governments! why don't the people of all nations, the people of the world, simply agree to get along, agree not to fight, no matter what their governments do? If the people of Iran and the United States agree on friendship, which basically they already do, then friendship it should be, and eventually, shall be. Much of this can happen online, depending on how many people in Iran have uncensored access to the internet. We need more than a treaty prohibiting Iran from having nuclear weapons. We need a world totally without any nuclear weapons, a treaty by which we get rid of every nuclear weapon in the world, no matter who owns it. But first, we need a people's political revolution, in America, and throughout the world.

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