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Amid the Bluster, Iran and the United States Might Just Give Diplomacy a Chance

A rare meeting to include both American and Iranian officials brings a glint of optimism

Posted July 17, 2008

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Iran will have a nuclear bomb next year.

There is no doubt that Iran is the greatest national security threat to the state of Israel. Two nuclear bombs would destroy Israel. Given the overwhelming amount of evidence, anyone who doubts that Iran is actively seeking technology to build nuclear weapons is simply delusional. Those who believe the Iranian regime is willing to forgo what it sees as the divinely inspired mission of eliminating Israel are, at best, dangerously naïve. Those who think Iranian leaders are more worried about survival than reaching paradise and attaining Islam’s ultimate victory, are not listening with open ears. All too many Westerners fall prey to the soft bigotry that presumes men like Ahmadinejad are incapable of saying what they mean and meaning what they say. The West should wake up: http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2007/12/fw-peaceful-majority.html

For Iran,"negotiation" and "compromise" are euphemisms for shame and surrender.

For Iran,"negotiation" and "compromise" are euphemisms for shame and surrender.

In the new Cold War shaping up between Islamism and the democratic West, Israel holds the front line. Once again, the values of the opposing sides are irreconcilable. In the Arab and Muslim order, power is absolute and has to be victorious, so "negotiation" and "compromise" are euphemisms for shame and surrender. Islamist Iran has made itself the driving force. The terrorist movements Hizbullah and Hamas are both Iranian satellites, and their presence on Israel's borders ensures that Iran can already engage in terrorism on its own terms and at times of its own choosing. As to the danger of nuke Iran :

http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/01/nuclear-power-and-anti-semitism.html

King Coal most powerful in the U. S.

The reserves of coal in the U.S. is placed at 190 yrs. I would recommend that none of it is used as coal but squeezed and heated as Hitler did when he was running out of plane fuel and gasoline, etc. It worked and he ended up with refinable oil. Let's get moving and make jet fuel, gasoline, diesel fuel, all other residual products that can be of use to our war machine and the decreasing of energy prices to the Man in the street in America. Add these billions of barrels to what we already have in the ground and we have no shortage even providing it only to ourselves and not planning on selling it to our needy allies and enemies. When we are swimming in the fuels of war it is time to strike and make the difference between the world continuing in a more peaceful climate and the U.S. negotiating from a putrified position of need and weakness. What is wrong with our politicians? Haven't any of you played as much of a game of chess? The only communication that works with the middle east is one of overwhelming force and dedication that their planned domination will not only fail but be neutralized by our superior planning and supply and our willingness to show them we have no fear of their promises of apicalypse because their countries will be the only ones experiencing the apocalypse delivered by non-islamic hands as of result of being threatened and placed on guard by war practice. We have long-practiced war at this point and need no further practice. Just the go ahead by a people that plans to survive and make sure you don't.

Iran

Yeah, all you 'scholars' of world history out there, remember Britain's Prime Minister, Mr. N. Chamberlin who crowed to the public after meeting with Hitler that" there would be peace in our time"? OK, name just ONE major conflict that was directly avoided by diplomacy (ie. appeasement)! I'm still waiting...So many people forget that Iran is a theocracy, and Islam is a violent, repressive religion bent on world domination. Factor that into this issue if you can.

IRAN AND ISRAEL SHOULD CALL FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR POWER AND WEAPONS

IRAN AND ISRAEL SHOULD CALL FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR POWER AND WEAPONS-FARFETCHED?ON JULY 13 2008 DOZENS OF MIDDLE EASTERN STATES CALLED FOR THIS INCLUDING NO BIO-CHEM WEAPONS IN MID-EAST

Mediterranean union wants to rid Mideast of WMD

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iAkOZStYXZ...

By ANGELA CHARLTON – 6 days ago

In a final declaration, Israel, Syria and the Palestinians along with countries across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa agreed to "pursue a mutually and effectively verifiable Middle East Zone free of weapons of mass destruction."

can google burning dinosaur

Abolition King coal, Fossil fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons

Abolition of Fossil fuels, Nuclear power and Weapons

THE END OF THE DINOSAUR CIVILIZATION (FOSSIL FUELS, NUCLEAR) AND THE EMERGING CONFLATION OF GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBAL CIVIL WAR, WORLD ECONOMIC DEPRESSION AND THE EXTINCTION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES…

According to an old story, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of them was the most skilled in the art. The physician, whose reputation was such that his name became synonymous with medical science in China, replied,“My eldest sister sees the spirit of sickness and removes it before it takes shape, so her name does not get out of the house. My elder brother cures sickness when it is still extremely minute, so his name does not get out of the neighborhood. As for me, I puncture veins, prescribe medicines, and massage skin, so from time to time my name gets out and is heard among the lords.

(Dr. Thomas Cleary's introduction to Sun Tzu's Art of War translation – note: Sun Tzu was writing at a time when Chinese civilization was embroiled in civil wars.)

War, Global Warming, financial calamity, starvation and suffering has become pornographic fodder world-wide."The best and brightest" participate and profit by it regardless of their being on the right, left or the middle.

Chaos and Disorder are imbued and dispersed in our Knowledge-, Economic-, Climate-, even Wisdom networks of knowing. Politicians run amuck and Corporations have their blinders on to everything except what legally they are obligated to do – that is to make profit above all else.(see The Corporation documentary - What is a corporation? http://www.youtube.com/watch... )

Too late is it now for long-term planning in the phase-out of King Coal and other Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power and Weapons.

All Tribes, Nations, Communities and Peoples must call and ACT for the Full Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons immediately.

Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels and Nuclear power and Weapons Everywhere!

Call for the Abolition in your community now-

Stop the Global Warming Machines!

Stop the Coming Genocides - Food/Water/Energy Chaos!

Divest from King coal

For rest of document see

http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/node/28427 (previous document)

If a country like North Korea can be talked out of deploying nuclear bombs to make their point...let us all hope that Iran will wake up in time to save themselves too...a country with so much oil wealth should relax and not go megalomania just because they never had it so good.....Cordially, Steve

Nikos Retsos

"The price good people pay for their indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

Plato

Where those smart americans lives?Unknown Nicos says more real stuff than Henri from CFR.Voice of america and Radio free europe operate under Operation Mockingbird.I think Mockingbird created those webpages to collect opinions of americans.And those opinions are SCARY for them.I read a lot of web stuff and for Wall street and CFR must be scary to read all this arround.

"In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of external menace"

John Foster Dulles secretary of state in the Eisenhower administration

"Why of course the people don't want war... That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

Hermann Goering

compassion and vission or lose our pretty blue planet

Ritired Acadmic of New York

I guess, the above reader looks for a war.

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