March 31, 2008 11:30 AM
Joschka Fischer said:
Global disarmament must start at the top – with the US and Russia. But first we need to update the non-proliferation treaty…
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/joschka_fischer/2008/03/new_nuclear_risk.html
Is “update” the right word for attempting to “repair” the non-proliferation treaty? Can the non-proliferation treaty be “repaired” so long as certain of the top “players” are protecting a major 1948 event that proved:
You can’t own what you can’t protect!
The United Nations not withstanding: you STILL can’t own what you can’t protect!
The Palestinians could not protect their 1948 homeland. They had no nuclear weapons. If the Palestinians were nuclear armed to the teeth in 1948, the West would likely have had to come up with a different solution to the problem it was trying to solve.
Trying to persuade the victims of a MAJOR land theft that they should continue to avoid the “latest and greatest” nuclear weapons while those who used force to remove those victims from their land are bristling with nuclear weapons – is mind boggling.
Current events have proved that it is unwise for leaders of small defenseless countries to expect and depend upon international LAW.
Will there be another “land grab”, of the 1948 magnitude, in the Middle East? What’s to stop it? A close cousin, the “settlements” idea is still alive and well in the Middle East today.
As time passes and populations increase will the West need to grab more land or can that feat now be accomplished by that country that was born as late as 1948?
If a country did not sign the npt and if 560 barrels of REAL yellowcake was lost in the Middle East in 1968, what is the chance that there may be “UNREGISTERED” nuclear devices in the Middle East? It is highly unlikely that Iraq or Iran wound up with the 1968 yellowcake.
While the world has long “suspected” America of being biased in its Middle East dealings, the Bush team has “advertised” that bias. And some neocon leaning columnists may once again say: that may help Mr. Bush at the polls.
When the “strongest man on earth” marches to the “beat of a different drummer”, there is no safe-haven for the weak. Not even a massive organization – backed by international laws designed to throttle the excesses of a wayward leader can provide a safe-haven for the weak.
That condition, if allowed to persist, will likely have only one outcome – an EAST-WEST neocon type “fight to the finish”. Mr. Bush has already mentioned WWIII. And after WWIII is over, the West can pick up where it left off before WWIII began. RIGHT?
While the Iraqi war was a miscalculation of significant magnitude, a WWIII miscalculation would likely be the FINAL miscalculation.
