Nuclear secrets?

Wow, ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages. Have I got a surprise for you. It is shocking, inconceivable, unbelievable and contrary to the edicts of the New Messiah. What could it be you ask? Who would go against the greatest leader of our time, the only hope for our future, the atomic agent of change, the last great option for our dying world?

According to IAEA Iran may not be telling the truth. I know, who'da thunk it?

Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report.
The tone of the language suggesting Tehran continues to stonewall the U.N. nuclear monitor revealed a glimpse of the frustration felt by agency investigators stymied in their attempts to gain full answers to suspicious aspects of Iran's past nuclear activities.

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2006
2007

"When North Korea announced a nuclear weapons test at the beginning of October 2006, Iran publicly condemned it. Iran policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Carah Ong, noted in her blog that the response of Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini on state-run television said:

'Iran’s position is clear and Iran on principle believes in a world free of nuclear weapons. Iran is hopeful that negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear activities can go ahead in the interest of both North Korea and the international community.' "

— Mohammad Ali Hosseini, October 2006, Iran Responds to North Korea’s Nuclear Weapon Test, quoted by Carah Ong,
October 10, 2006

1950's thru to the present

While other more civilized, sane countries have decamped from the nuclear weapon bandwagon, rogue states like North Korea and Iran have continued to develop technologies which if left unchecked may kill us all.

During the cold war nuclear weapons were an essential part of defensive technology. As long as there was someone out there ready and willing to use those kinds of weapons to eradicate their enemies, the threat of equal or worse damage being visited upon their own country and peoples kept them in line. Saner heads have for the most part prevailed and now we have the village idiots from 3rd world cess pools rattling their sabers or in reality their camel bones at the rest of the world pretending they are actual players in world events. North Korea and Iran remind one of adolescents who must make noise and call attention to themselves due to their feelings of inadequacy.

Most people pass this stage in human development and come to the knowledge that while every life is important, all life is transient. It is apparent that in at least these two countries the leadership will never grow up. They will continue to act as if their lives and the lives of their people is the pre-eminent reason for the existence of this planet. They will attempt to blackmail, bribe, bully and intimidate the rest of the world as long as they believe the rest of the world is too weak, selfish, naive and ignorant to do anything about it.

My guess is that it will take either a nuclear accident like Chernobyl or worse to wake up those who refuse to believe or understand that appeasement never works with megalomaniacs or children. The leaders in these 3rd world circus' are one or the other. My opinion is that their emotional growth was stunted at the same time they should have been taught that there were other people in the world and that they were not the only one's that matter.

Parenting, it always comes down to parenting. My advice. Someone needs to give them a spanking, not a time out, not grounding, a spanking, hard enough for them to remember it for a long, long time. 

Somewhat like Reagan's response to Libya's bombing of a German night club. It wasn't the isolated incident that he was addressing, it was the idea that there would be no consequences to uncivilized behavior. Mr. Kadafi didn't come out of his bunker for a very long time after that. That is the real secret of peace. We must make it much more preferable to what ever those who seek power can ever achieve.

It's a shame that the current crop of political kindergardeners haven't achieved that level of expertise.