07.09.08
The significance of the Iranian missile tests
The EU, the IAEA, various Islamic/Arab-community bodies, and, indeed, the US State Department, have spent decades hoping that one more conference or agreement or back-channel thread of communication was going to avert the fruition of hatred harbored for us by a regime that has been sworn to at least our harm and humiliation if not our subjugation or destruction since 1979. We’ve known for at least three years that this regime was about to have the means to deliver apocalyptic horror to the West, and still we’ve believed in sanctions and incentives and “strong diplomacy.”
Now we see starkly the stakes that will be involved if either of the two Western states most relied upon to do something – Israel or the United States – takes forceful action against Iran’s nuclear program.
A year from now, Iran will have a nuclear arsenal and a state-of-the-art delivery system. Most likely, both the US and Israel will have clueless and worthless clowns as leaders.
It was a nice run our species had.
Mr. Dings said,
July 10, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
Mr. Dings said,
July 10, 2008 at 2:23 pm
O great stone Buddhas with sad negroid lips torn down by us by the red
guard all one force
one leveling mad mechanism, grinding it down to earth and
swamp to sea to powder
till Mozart is something a few men can whistle
or play on a homemade flute and we bow to each other
telling old tales half remembered
gathering shells learning again “all beings are from the very beginning Buddhas
or glowing and dying radiation and plague we come to that
final great love illumination
(From “The Very First, Nothing Is,” by Diane Di Prima, b. 1934, mother of five)
Administrator said,
July 10, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Writing sad poetry has its place – and it’s an important one – in our world, but I sure wish someone would come up with a chaos-proof way to keep Iran from getting nukes and ICBM capability.