Proliferate
I was recently listening to Public Radio when I heard a discussion about nuclear power and nuclear holocaust. It seems that back in the early sixties, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world was closer to the holocaust than any time since. Whew! Now we can finally relax.
The guest on the radio program went on to say he has mostly been in favor of nuclear power for electrical generation because if the poisons created are greater, they are also containable and recyclable. He pointed out that fifty per cent of U.S nuclear fuel is coming from dismantled Soviet – Russian warheads. This idea intrigued me and made me less opposed to nuclear power that might do more good than harm after all.
This immediately raised a question in my mind that was not addressed on the radio program. Who is benefiting from dismantled U.S. warheads? Probably no one. Iran came to mind. Let us give them the warheads they desire as they work to enrich their own uranium. Let us and Russia supply them with all they need right now. Nuclear friendship is a beautiful thing.
How many times do we hear the argument that an oil rich country has no need of nuclear power? Consider what has been happening to the price of oil. I don’t remember the world objecting to U.S. nuclear power because we had more trees and coal than we can use in a century. Can it possibly be a national right to conserve a natural resource? Of course not - we must use everything up before we die. If we must do this, you must too or you are evil.
The White House assures us at every opportunity we are winning the War on Terrorism. Back in the early nineties when Osama wanted to talk about the U.S. removing its military from Saudi Arabia, among other things, an always arrogant U.S. government refused to talk. Osama responded the best he knew how. The lesson learned by government from his response was: when ignoring an enemy does not work, do it again and again until it does. Now the U.S. military is no longer in Saudi Arabia and it only looks like Al Qaeda is winning. We’ll talk to and ignore whoever we please and if they don’t like it, we’ll have a war named after them. This is the value of a good U.S. education. If at first you don’t succeed, try the same thing over and over until you do.
Since George Bush declared Iran an enemy, there will be no talking with them. Diplomatic efforts are intended to fail as they did in Iraq. Then the world will be able to punish these evil people with a clear conscience. Don’t fret that Iran will become another Iraq because government has learned the next invasion just has to go better than the last one. Let’s recruit another half million soldiers and kick some evil Persian ass! When we are given our next President, we can invade Iran and start diplomatic talks with North Korea. Then we can make a new list of evildoers to destroy. But I think the destruction will come home to roost before then. Ignoring the evil Americans will prove our costliest mistake.
Ed Howes sought and found, knocked and entered. Now he sees things differently. To see more of what he sees, please visit http://www.justanotherview.com or do an author search here at Ezine Articles.
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