Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Netanyahu on Iran

I listened to Netanyahu's speech on Iran. Too weak!
Netanyahu doesn't like the Obama administration's plan for Iran, which is to keep Iran's uranium isotope separation centrifuges in place, but with limited operation for the next 10 years. After that time, Iran is free to pursue any nuclear activity they wish. I agree with Netanyahu. It's not only a poor plan, it's lousy.
Netanyahu's plan is to dismantle Iran's uranium isotope separation facilities until such time as Iran agrees to give up its plan on aggression in the Middle East, eliminate support of terrorism, and stop claiming to destroy Israel. This is also a poor plan, for the simple reason that who is to judge how much aggression is aggression, what amount of terrorism can be supported without being recognized, and how long the Iranians can lie about not wanting to destroy Israel.
As long as we have atomic weapon proliferation, particularly in the Middle East, the world is in danger of catastrophic destruction. There's nothing that can be done about major countries now holding atomic weapons except to apply the "Mutually Assured Destruction Plan" (MAD). This says, "if you do it to me, I will do it to you and we're all dead".
However, the little guys in the Middle East work on a different philosophy, which is, "If we have to die to accomplish our purpose, so be it. We look forward to being with Allah in heaven". Christians also have a favorable opinion for heaven and they look forward to being there, when their lifespans are inevitable through disease or old-age, but most of them do not want to rush into it, which is dissimilar to young Muslim jihadists.
Bottom line: Wii must in perpetuity (forever) deny second-class nations, particularly Middle Eastern, from ever having or making atomic weapons.
Starting with Iran as a case in point, we must apply sanctions of trade and finance and military force if necessary to allow US inspectors access to all aspects of Iran's geography to ferret out supplies of uranium and thorium, any atomic piles to produce plutonium or similar fissionable materials, and any uranium isotope separation equipment, particularly centrifuges. The collection of such information must then be acted upon by removing all uranium and thorium sources to the United States, physically destroying all Ira it could purchase low-grade fissionable material for powerplant use from other major producing countries nian equipment for production of fissionable materials at any level of fission activity, and maintaining a contingent of American inspectors in Iran to assure that there is forever no rebuilding of atomic weapon capability. There should be no arguments to the contrary. If Iran has plans for atomic power, that can be accomplished by purchase of low-grade fissionable material for power use from presently producing countries.
Transfer of atomic weapons from other countries should be regarded as acts of war, with similar retribution. That is, confiscation of atomic weapons, application of various trade and financial sanctions, and military force if necessary. The first country of attention would be North Korea, but any major powers with atomic weapons, such as Russia and China would be included.
Forget the United Nations in this operation. It will be useless.
The US program will be an expense, but it can be limited to having the country of Iran pay for the destruction of its own equipment. The Iranians apparently have a dream of restoring the Persian Empire. We should basically have no objection to that program, providing it is done within the limits of peace; that is, through technical development and hard work, and not through a program of military aggression with or without atomic weapons.

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