Iran is Watching North Korea This Week
I am sure that Iran is watching what is happening very closely although will whatever actions happen will not stop them from pursuing their own nuclear goals!
Let's look carefully at the North Korean and Iranian situations together, they are closely paralleled.
- The North Korean government is not a democracy and so the government leaders do not feel that they have to account to the people. They can not be replaced. They have live terms. Iran - same thing, the Supreme Leader holds sway over all government legislation and initiatives and is not elected.
- The world perceives that if North Korea gets the bomb, it may sell it to terrorists for money. They have already expressed a lack of scruples in this area. Hmmm, Iran has already funded Hezbollah and Hamas, two widely groups perceived as terrorist groups. What's to say that if the price was right or the bombing objective pleasing, that Iran would not somehow "slip" a nuclear bomb or dirty bomb to "just the right people"?
- The North Korean government has widely claimed that a nuclear deterrent is important to their national security with Chinese and Russian neighbors already having as bomb. Iran has voiced this same point of view. Although Israel has not said that it has a nuclear deterrent, it is widely accepted that they do (and probably supplied by the Americans in part if not in whole) and so Iran feels that it must be armed against possible aggression from Israel in addition to pushing for nuclear power for economic improvement.
- The US government voiced a thinly veiled threat to North Korea, just this morning, "stay in power or have a nuclear bomb, you can not have it both ways." Well, the US has not been that verbally threatening with Iran YET, but I am sure that we will eventually get to that point as well. Do you doubt that?
Well all the points that can be used for why North Korea should not have a nuclear bomb can pretty much be used for why Iran should not have a nuclear bomb as well. So, I am watching what happens when North Korea sets theirs off, as they will. Brace yourself for a military attack of North Korea in the next several weeks if they do go forward.
Sorry gentlemen and gentlewomen of the National Guard, but I would start to get your things in order as you will most likely be called up and drawn into this war theatre in the very near future as we can not afford to pull troops out of Iraq at this point. I would imagine that we will start with a "Shock and Awe" campaign with massive bombings on nuclear research facilities and then move forward from there. Brace Yourselves!
