To Moshe on sick Nazi joke

Submitted by Plato (United Arab Emirates), Jan 11, 2007 at 05:58

My comment was in relation to this statement of yours: "Iran is speeding "full throttle" towards military nuclear capabilities, and is openly declaring that the Jewish State of Israel must be wiped off the map. And implicitly these threats mean also that Iran dreams to control the Middle Eastern oil reserves and supplies, and to teach the world "Who's the Boss".

The "free civilised" west can, to start with, get rid of its addiction to oil and so bring down the price of oil to reasonable levels. The huge surpluses the oil exporters enjoy helps them to maintain control over the masses. The money in the hands of the rich bankrolls extremists all over the the poorer Islamic states. Pakistan, Somalia and Bangladesh are good examples. If they have to work like normal people all over the world to make a living instead of floating on oil dollars they would demand accountability from their rulers. Stop bankrolling via oil prices and arming the oil potentates and you won't have to send in your marines to democratise anyone. The huge amount of unearned wealth in the hands of a few wealthy Arab nations gives Muslims the illusion that they are some kind of chosen people

Let us not pretend that Israel does not have nuclear weapons. And Iran considers Israel, even if for the wrong reasons, to be its mortal enemy. And what right does any nation have to dictate to another sovereign country what it can and cannot do especially if the ones doing the dictating are doing exactly what they say should not be done. And Iran went through a conventional decade long war with Iraq, which had from all indications the encouragement of the US.

Its Islamic jingoism notwithstanding, as a free country Iran should not be coerced into abandoning what it considers are its best interests. And can you consider the hectoring by Bush as anything but coercion. And Iran has the example of what happened to Iraq. Would Bush have dared to pulverise Iraq if he knew it had nuclear power. Would he dare attack North Korea now. If I were Ahmedinejad I would make every effort to acquire nuclear capabilities. And why has nothing happened to North Korea a much less democratic country with a very unstable dictatorship.

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