Nuclear Iran
The State of the Union address was last night and while it covered many points that I would love to comment on, onething stood out. Iran. Bush said, ”We cannot afford to have Iran with a nuclear weapon.” Guess what, that is an understatement. Lets think about this. Iran claims they want nuclear capabilities in order to produce energy through nuclear power plants. Now while it would be nice for Iran to have power, you must aks yourself, “why do they need nuclear power?” Think about it, Iran has a very large quantity of oil. Furthermore, I don’t recall Iran ever giving a crap about the environment. So why don’t they convert their oil into electric power?
I am reminded of North Korea, the other remaining member of the “Axis of Evil“. Fun loving Bill Clinton thought it would be a great idea to give North Korea nuclear power plants. Can you guess what Commie Korea did with their nuclear capabilities? They made nuclear missiles and proceeded to threaten us with them.
So What do you think Iran will do with nuclear capabilities? I’m pretty sure they can’t make missiles, but they do know a thing or two about making bombs. Now people may say ask: “what right does America have to deny nuclear weapons to other nations when America was the only nation to actually use a nuclear weapon against another nation?” Well, that would take another blog in itself to explain, but I can offer you one reason why Iran shouldn’t have nuclear weapons: I don’t trust them; they hate us, they are an unstable government and they are in the anti-American terrorist hot bed of the world.
The problem is developing nuclear power at all. We should find alternative power sources to protect the environment AND the world’s citizens. You might say, yeah, well that’ll never happen. If enough people start to agree, and not be intimidated by the large task of eliminating all nuclear weapons maybe it will happen one day. Disarming won’t happen for sure if no one says anything.
Nuclear power is one of the best power sources availiable. Not only is it healthy for the environment but it produces an extrodinary amount of energy. Now it is a problem disposing nuclear waste. However, we have been storing nuclear waste in military guarded areas for decades.
As for disarming, i hope we never do that. Dispite what many Americans may think, the world is not a safe place. If we act nieve and disarm how can we trust the rest of the world to do the same. Look at the cold war, the fact that we had nuclear weapons saved us from going to war with the USSR. The irony is that although nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction, no two countries with nukes have ever gone to war. It is in some way a peace maker. But just because it has been a peace maker does not mean that i trust other countries with them.