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The US knows that using lies and half-truths to force its view
is not going to work in this particular case, especially now
that Afghanistan has started to feature so prominently in US
military policy. More troops are needed in Kabul, but sending
supplies to meet their needs is beginning to become a vexing
problem. The supply routes that go through Pakistan are now
getting exposed to increasing militia attacks and the one in
Kyrgyzstan is facing closure.
So, the White House has now decided to talk with Iran. Perhaps
a new supply route could be obtained, one that goes through
Iranian territory. What cunning deviousness. The US has never
been known for sincere conduct or behaviour in its dealings with
others. Obama is really not that much different from Bush.
In any case, the West should not hide from the fact that they
are the ones who are most deserving of criticism in nuclear-
related issues. The West were the ones who pioneered the so-
called 'atoms-for-peace' program that helped to raise interest
in nuclear power plants. Unfortunately, US political puppets
in many areas, including Persia, never lasted as long as the
atomic interest. What goes round comes round.
Also, the West, especially the US and France, have always been
unreceptive to the idea of a world without nuclear weapons. The
US is always fearful that without nuclear weapons, the country
would surely one day cease to be the bully-boy of the globe as
other nations obtained parity in conventional arms. Without that
status, the US would no longer be able to dictate terms to the
others as it pleased.
The West ought to be honest with the rest of the world and start
the ball rolling. Should the world get rid of all nuclear arsenals
and ban the keeping of such weapons in any country ( unlike the
smallpox virus) or should the world forbid all countries from ever
unleashing a first-strike nuclear attack ? These are the pertinent
issues that need to be discussed by the entire world. And not the
alleged wrongdoing by Iran.
Iran's allies in the Security Council must stand firm against any
trickery by the West to paint the country as evil because the real
evil is only found within the accuser and no one else. The real
axis of evil is made up of Paris, London and Washington. The
monsters who threaten world peace truly reside in these cities.