Sanctions - United We Stand, Divided We Fall
We've all heard this saying before "united we stand, divided we fall". Here and now, this is a truth that can not be questioned, particularly on the topic of sanctions against North Korea and against Iran.
If the world community, through the United Nations, can not solidify a response using sanctions to stop the proliferation of nuclear research and nuclear weapons by the questionable governments of Iran and North Korea, then sanctions will fail and both parties will be like wild lions on a plain terrorizing the herds that they will prey upon madly. In this word picture, you and I, and our families are the herds that the lions will prey upon. We are the ones who will suffer from the madness that they two countries could unleash.
As the sanction process moves quickly along for North Korea, with China just saying this morning that they will check shipments coming and going from North Korea, back peddling on their statement earlier in the weekend that they would not inspect shipments, it appears that sanctions against the North Koreans will happen soon. On the Iranian front, the sanction process, although not as urgent to enact as the North Korean one, is still important, and yet seems stalemated. We must move the Iranian sanctions along the same process and the world community must stand strong in the light of potential oil blackmail from Iran to enact sanctions just the same. There must be no tolerance on this issue.
Both the North Korean and the Iran situation are serious problems for long term peace worldwide. Both situations need a strong spirit of participation and adherence to agreed upon sanctions to make headway in this serious threat to all countries worldwide.
We must stand united against the threat of nuclear violence and the unbridled rhetoric of violence and blackmail.
If the world community, through the United Nations, can not solidify a response using sanctions to stop the proliferation of nuclear research and nuclear weapons by the questionable governments of Iran and North Korea, then sanctions will fail and both parties will be like wild lions on a plain terrorizing the herds that they will prey upon madly. In this word picture, you and I, and our families are the herds that the lions will prey upon. We are the ones who will suffer from the madness that they two countries could unleash.
As the sanction process moves quickly along for North Korea, with China just saying this morning that they will check shipments coming and going from North Korea, back peddling on their statement earlier in the weekend that they would not inspect shipments, it appears that sanctions against the North Koreans will happen soon. On the Iranian front, the sanction process, although not as urgent to enact as the North Korean one, is still important, and yet seems stalemated. We must move the Iranian sanctions along the same process and the world community must stand strong in the light of potential oil blackmail from Iran to enact sanctions just the same. There must be no tolerance on this issue.
Both the North Korean and the Iran situation are serious problems for long term peace worldwide. Both situations need a strong spirit of participation and adherence to agreed upon sanctions to make headway in this serious threat to all countries worldwide.
We must stand united against the threat of nuclear violence and the unbridled rhetoric of violence and blackmail.
