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Letters: Hoping that Iran will just go away won't work

Hans Blix's commentary exhibits the same willing disbelief in the facts that afflicted the Europeans during the 1930s ("To succeed with Iran, push a nuke-free zone," Monday). His premise is that a nonproliferation treaty in the Middle East will somehow deter the spread of nuclear weapons if Israel divests itself of its commonly assumed nuclear arsenal.

The Iranians learned their lessons well from both North Korea and Iraq. They continue to play a diplomatic rope-a-dope, offering hypothetical concessions and then retreating in the face of concrete proposals. The Iranians certainly delayed granting access to the recently discovered nuclear facility long enough to sanitize the installation of any evidence of a weapons program. Blix also assumes a level of rational thought from a regime that denies the Holocaust, while threatening the Israelis with another.

The North Koreans kept their program hidden until they had reached the capacity to weaponize uranium. The Iranians certainly are following this model.

In a letter to his sister, Neville Chamberlain lamented that if only the dictators would present their demands in the normal diplomatic fashion, he would be able to accommodate them. The inevitable result of this thinking was the Second World War.

If, as is likely, the Iranians do achieve a nuclear capacity, it is only the threat of retaliation that will prevent the unthinkable.

Craig J. Firestone

Huntingdon Valley

Comments   
Posted 04:22 AM, 10/28/2009
taghee
There is a proverb that said "When you repeat a lie a lot it will become the truth", I think it was Goebbels the head of Nazi propaganda that said that. And you have fallen for it. Congratulations
Posted 08:18 AM, 10/28/2009
Whylee98
After all, it was Hans Blix who said that Iraq had no WMD. Our brilliant president ignored this and wasted about 2-3 trillion dollars and 4-5 thousand American lives, in Iraq. Perhaps this time we will listen.
Posted 03:48 PM, 10/28/2009
pj katauskas
Blix is irrelevant. The real test of whether Iran is genuinely slowing and ceasing its development of a nuclear weapons will be Israel's reaction to our "outreach" and Iran's on-again-off-again responsiveness. It Iran acts in good faith and genuinely, then Israel will not strike. If Iran does not, Israel will strike. It's that simple. We will know after the fact of the strike, or when Netanyahu gives Obama a courtesy call to advise him that an attack on Iran has begun.
Posted 07:21 PM, 10/28/2009
taghee
Both West and Israel know the answer to this problem. The only way to make Iran not make the bomb is to make the entire mideast nuclear-bomb free zone, including Israel. Oh yes all warships... in Persian Gulf have to get ride of their nukes too. If Israel wants war she can have it but she should expect heavy retaliation. But does it worth it? A lot of people will die over a set of lies and misinformation again.
Posted 08:53 AM, 10/29/2009
James
Let the boys in blue vaporize the corruption in Tehran. Let millions of Iranians perish and let the world learn what happens when a leader, aided and abbetted by China and Russia takes his people over the precipice like lemmings to preserve his "revolution". Most Iranians would gladly thow away Amadejadein if they were not cowed into submission by the secret police. Better must be demanded from Iran as far as responsible behavior is concerned. If any of us threatened our neighbors at home with tantalizing rumors of a cache of automatic rifles and explosives, the SWAT team would kick down the doors to take you or kill you if you try to shoot. They would not go to the UN to get sanctions imposed upon you!
Posted 12:15 PM, 10/29/2009
psyrus
One thing is certain. No matter what North Korea and Iran do, Obama will let it happen.
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