Anyone interested in seeing if history actually does repeat itself... or for that matter if anyone is foolish enough to allow it to happen, keep your eye on the latest spin coming out about Iran and it's nuclear program.
If you remember, it all begins with myth and the call for UN intervention, then a heavier stream of myth and propaganda is disseminated. Then the all important "coalition" building begins, followed by a total disregard for the UN and the world courts entirely and a staged invasion based on fear and the unsubstantiated claims of self defense against a country, all of which is found later to have no basis in truth or reality. But by then, "hey, we're there! We can't leave now, can we?? Gotta stay and rebuild what we've destroyed for a decade or two, don't we?"
The nation of Iran (and it's democratically elected leadership) insists that it's quest for nuclear research is for the purpose of energy and to rid itself of its own dependency on oil.
The west with similar interests, for some reason can't see this as a possibility for Iran and insists otherwise. Either way we have another instance of one nation completely disregarding the sovereignty of another in ways that would never be found acceptable if the empire were on the other foot.
The same subterfuge that was promoted for our attacking Iraq for unfounded claims of nukes and weapons of mass destruction has been put in motion and is already feeding a frenzy surrounding Iran, without so much as a speck of proof or evidence in support of the fearful claims just speculation,... but here we go again, folks.
And while our leadership is denying any but international US sympathizers the right to produce and bear unlimited nuclear energies and/or weaponry with good blessing, we are once again enforcing the very double standards and limited vision which has become the cause for pitting the east against the west and the Christian world against the Muslim whose natural repercussion is the same in reverse and the growth of "terrorism".
The message is the medium. Case in point? Just two days ago, while the whole Iran nuclear issue was picking up a full head of steam and creating friction and headlines around the world, our very own headlines were taunting how one of our nuclear research facilities, state side was not only still actively pursuing their own advances, research and studies in nuclear energy and weaponry, but the news was, how now this and other sites are being equipped and fortified with six barrel, 50 round per second gattling guns.
How we can insist upon whether or not any other particular foreign nation can or cannot pursue their own interests in the science of nuclear physics and whether or not their intentions might be peaceful, while nations such as India, Pakistan, France, Israel, England, China, Russia, Korea and ourselves hold immense stock piles of weapons of this nature, enough to obliterate life as we know it, is a Rubik's cube in itself.
Sure, Iran may prove to join the ranks of the many countries who have developed weapons based on the same destructive means as our sciences and technologies have sired and unfortunately deployed against others. In the scheme of things however, they (Iran) could never pose a threat as great as the one that already exists among the nations mentioned above. Nowhere near the threat!
On the other hand, perhaps all Iran cares to do is rise up from being a third world country and produce a cleaner, more efficient means of producing energy for them selves. Damn them for wanting to achieve progress!
Either way, it should not be the place of any world power or empire, our own or someone else's to condemn another country's efforts to do so as a threat, before a genuine threat has been identified and substantiated beyond mere speculation.
Surely, given a reversal in status, we would never accept sanctions, UN inspections or even the threat of military intervention as an alternative to pursuing our own interests… nuclear or otherwise.
Why would anyone think for a moment that Iran or any other country would respond any differently than we would to the unreasonable requests to do so??
Obviously, nothing has yet been learned by our leadership from their foray into Iraq or their rush to war now twice, in place of finding the means to coexist diplomatically and in good faith.
This is now shaping up to be yet another such invasion and occupation from the same folks who brought us Iraq I and II but now it looks like we're gearing up for Iran. Someone should consider being careful. The whole thing does little really except escalate the very terrorism we claim to be trying to diminish, doesn't it? And where's the surprise in that?? Why the whole scenario is beginning to stink of a "crusade" in every real sense of the word no matter what the official policy might claim.
We can't keep targeting the Arab countries in the middle east with our paternalism and dictates and come away with the people who live there thinking anything otherwise.
Have we the people learned anything? IF so will we even attempt to teach it to our leadership or simply be fooled again??
Unfortunately I fear we'll see which, in a very short while.
