Dealing With Nukes, The American Way

OBAMA, and the powers of the earth signed an agreement with Iran several years ago under which Iran agree to wait at least ten years before resuming work on an atomic bomb, in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, among other stipulations, including United nations inspections and oversight. All facts considered, it is a good agreement, a step in the right denuclearization direction. Meanwhile, during negotiations, Arkansas Senator Tom "tall" Cotton and forty six other Obama- backstabbing republican senators drafted and signed a letter to the Iranian government, reminding them that Obama would soon be gone, and that thereafter any agreements reached with him would be subject to repudiation. A blatant usurpation of the president's constitutional prerogative of making American foreign policy, ostensibly. Iran laughed at the letter, and asked who in hell tom Cotton is. Nobody knows. Now, Obama is long gone, and the treaty with Iran remains fully intact, another example of pompous republican promises, unfulfilled, fortunately. On many occasions, well documented, the world has narrowly, miraculously escaped nuclear devastation due to misunderstandings, computer errors, and strategic insanity by world leaders lacking wit, notably Ronald Reagan, who insisted on continuously, provocatively testing Soviet defenses with aerial penetrations of its air space. See "Who Rules the World", by Noam Chomsky, chapter 22. Not only do North Korea and Iran need to eliminate nuclear weapons for the good of the world, so do all other nations, including and particularly the United States, the only country, so far, to have ever used atomic bombs against an enemy, miraculously. In 1953 the United States overthrew the government of Iran, and installed the Shah, who ruled from 1953 until 1979, and whose appeal to the United States consisted in his loyalty and obedience to America. Little wonder that to this day the Iranian people and government are suspicious and fearful of United States intentions. U.S. intelligence has consistently reported that all Iranian military preparations and strategy are purely defensive in nature, and that Iran poses no threat to American interests. Everyone outside the United States recognizes that the world's leading practitioner of terrorism is the United States, not Iran. These facts are never reported by the U.S. government or media. Throughout the entire twenty six year reign of the Shah of Iran, the encouraged Iran to develop nuclear weapons. This is well documented. Iranian graduate students in nuclear physics studied at major American universities, including M.I.T.. When asked recently to explain this, former Secretary of State henry Kissinger replied: "they were our allies then."