Media Flagstones Along a Path to War on Iran - by Norman Solomon
So it seems that talks with Iran have ‘failed’, meaning that they do not wish to give up their right under the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to generate electricity. Suspicions abound about the secret desire of Iran to build nuclear weapons must be stopped, a rather hypocritical view considering the US and UK nuclear arsenal, along with our approval of strategic allies across the world acquiring nuclear weapons.
It seems the leaders of the ‘civilised west’ cannot grasp that owning vast amounts of nuclear weapons, and allowing our allies on different continents to acquire them, will lead to an arms race. After the illegal invasion of Iraq countries are fully aware that in order to avoid a ’shock and awe’ invasion they must acquire nuclear weapons.