A Change of Thought

Fire of Liberty

I'd have to say that Iran's most recent quest for the bomb has become a great concern within the European community especially when France's foreign minister Philippe Douste-Blazy starts doling out comments like this: "Today it is very simple: No civil nuclear program can explain Iran's nuclear programme. So it is a clandestine military nuclear programme." When members of the governments that have been closer friends with Iran since the fall of the Shah and have given them the benefit of doubt about the nature of their nuke project start having second guesses you know Iran is running out of friends in high places thus pushing them into the no-mans-land of an isolated state. I just hope our allies in Europe awaken to the fact that diplomacy with Iran is hanging by a very tiny but fraying string that will eventually break. It'll probably never make it past the vetoes of China and Russia in the UN Security Council but the time for dealing is about over and will have to be replaced with some kind of action liked targeted sanctions(Non-Economic at first). If we can get this done much like was done with South Africa in the later years of apartheid we'll probably help push through some change or give more umph to the real democrats within Iran who want the regime "blowin' in the wind." Let's hope the French and other nations follow through on such thoughts or are we just seeing a repeat of yet another twelve year drawn out battle in the Security Council like we did with Saddam. Time is more pressing due to the fact that the mullahs are very close to having a deadly arsenal of nuke aimed at Iraq, Israel, The US 5th Fleet in Bahrain (across from Iran in Persian Gulf), and most of Europe not to mention our troops stationed throughout the region. So get to cracking Europe.