While our incredibly foolish internal politics, increasingly driven by an increasingly unhinged left focuses on sideshows and the carnival barkers touting the distractions fumble toward election day, the rest of the world watches and realizes we are in disarray.
So they decide to go and get nuclear weapons.
THE SPECTRE of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised yesterday when six Arab states announced that they were embarking on programmes to master atomic technology. The move, which follows the failure by the West to curb Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, could see a rapid spread of nuclear reactors in one of the world’s most unstable regions, stretching from the Gulf to the Levant and into North Africa.
The countries involved were named by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. Tunisia and the UAE have also shown interest.
All want to build civilian nuclear energy programmes, as they are permitted to under international law. But the sudden rush to nuclear power has raised suspicions that the real intention is to acquire nuclear technology which could be used for the first Arab atomic bomb.
“Some Middle East states, including Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Saudi Arabia, have shown initial interest [in using] nuclear power primarily for desalination purposes,” Tomihiro Taniguch, the deputy director-general of the IAEA, told the business weekly Middle East Economic Digest. He said that they had held preliminary discussions with the governments and that the IAEA’s technical advisory programme would be offered to them to help with studies into creating power plants.
Mark Fitzpatrick, an expert on nuclear proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said that it was clear that the sudden drive for nuclear expertise was to provide the Arabs with a “security hedge”.
“If Iran was not on the path to a nuclear weapons capability you would probably not see this sudden rush [in the Arab world],” he said.
These are the wages earned by the insane focus on the inane waste of time known as Plamegate and all the rest of the hyperventilated sideshows we have endured for years. This is the payback for undermining, at every turn, the elected administration of this nation. This is what happens when bitter screeching partisanship and finger-pointing replaces citizenship and loyal opposition. This is what a partisan and irresponsible media transmits to the world and what convinces our Friends and enemies alike that we are weak and useless, both as a friend and as an enemy. This is the world we are left with. This is the road we are being pushed down.
UPDATE: Mere Rhetoric: "If the door is a world of nuclear terrorism and the world is on the doorstep, the best analogy would be that the UN – after ringing the doorbell and knocking a few times – has now taken to frantically trying to kick the door down."
Imagine the year is 1998…
These are the wages earned by the insane focus on the inane waste of time known as Monicagate and all the rest of the hyperventilated sideshows we have endured for years. This is the payback for undermining, at every turn, the elected administration of this nation. This is what happens when bitter screeching partisanship and finger-pointing replaces citizenship and loyal opposition. This is what a partisan and irresponsible media transmits to the world and what convinces our Friends and enemies alike that we are weak and useless, both as a friend and as an enemy. This is the world we are left with. This is the road we are being pushed down.
Actually, Brian, I’m on the record around here that the impeachment was stupid. So what is your point?
translation: “Look, he’s pimping his missiles…. Ahdjabwhatshisface in Iran is freaking us to the max, and we ain’t sure you Yanks will take him out if the Dems win this election. So we figure we better start strapping up!”
Oh, and Brian? Lovely prose. Too bad you logic is so far off the rails. Indeed, remember 1998. It’s five years since the first jihad assault on the WTC. It’s nineteen years since the Iranian Mullahs committed an act of war: invading sovereign US territory by invading our Tehran embassy. I could go on, but if you ain’t thick as a brick, you get my drift. And you’re gonna have to claify “loyal opposition,” since last time I looked, neither side was claiming to wear a crown. And your second sentence? It could stand in a dictionary next to “Democrat party” or “New York Times.”
PS: In 1998 Bubba signed into law the “Saddam’s Gotta Go” resolution. So don’t wrap that whole year into that girl on her knees. We told Hussein his days were numbered right there and then.
I wonder if it’s at least in part due to the naming an axis of evil and,when deciding who is the greater threat,Bush chose to go after the weakest of the three.Do you think the other 2,having seen that Bush went after the only one who not only didn’t have a weapon,but no longer had the capability of making one? Since then,North Korea and Iran have further confirmed for the other nations that a nuclear program is the best defense against a US invasion.
Oh man, it’s so amusing to watch the blame game. Yeah, Plamegate affected world policy and drove these nations to go nuclear. These nations rushing to go nuclear couldn’t be a reaction to America’s hegemony and non-UN backed invasion of a country who posed no threat to us. No, it’s all the Democrats fault. Of course it is. And Republicans like to call Democrats whiners….
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Tom? I imagine that “whiners” crack is aimed at me, so allow me to let you in on a little secret: we didn’t need the UN’s “permission.” Following the Gulf War, Saddam signed a ceasefire agreement which he repeated violated. All the UN would do was pass resolution after resolution in response, and Clinton would lob the occasional missile. After 9-11-01, and another flurry of UN consternation and even MORE resolution writing, the Bush Administration said “enough” and knocked the Hussein regime down… which was the official American policy in place when they first stepped into the White House.
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Yeah, just business as usual untill something hits the fan. It is time for Americans to grow up and understand that the world does not resemble their spoiled little haven. The longer this inmature bickering continues, the worse the revelations will be.
This guy’s name is Fitzgerald, so maybe we should skip the Plame card game, the Foley artists, Spectre and the old spy movies and move into countires that are run by dictators or royalty. Saddam was a warning to them. He was educated and put in place by America like the Sha and taken out of power when we were done; after we made money selling both arms.
Deslaination is an old concept for the middle east. Old cargo ships desalinating water on the coast, providing all the freash water anyone could want. Nothing happened.
The CanDo reactor from Canada has a wonderful history of providing energy to countires all over the world and even France has chosen this reactor for its future(while trying to buy up Canada’s energy companies that are going to build 10 or 12 reactors).
India is an example of a country that has taken full advantage of the CanDo. The technology was originally sold to India by the Mossad and India did come out with nuclear missiles, but when the history of reactor grade fuel, plutonium from obsolete warheads, the half life of Xenon in the reactor fuel, fuel assemblies bundled in the reactor core(how it does more with ‘less’), and neutrinos are considered in how a CanDo creates energy; the reactor is the favorite unless you want to make a bomb.
Huge ships on the coast with CanDos creating energy for unlimited fresh water. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are favorites with Algeria coming in close third and Morrocco last.
CanDo can be looked up on the internet. It’s been around for years and sometimes Canadians get it confused with ski doos, sea doos and maybe that’s because of bambardier makes them and all those planes – retired military guys; buts it’s the best answer to the six states need for energy.
that would be CANDU.
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