The Associated Press has an analysis piece entitled US making plans for Iran nuke strategy by Robert Burns that reads like the ravings of a lunatic or non-Earth resident.
Iran has just agreed in principle to allow its low-enriched uranium (which cannot be used to make bombs) to be taken abroad in batches, but Burns at the AP is has already skipped ahead in talking about how Iran is to be "deterred from using atomic weapons."
What "atomic weapons?" Can fantasy and reality be any further apart? Not once does the piece mention that there's no actual evidence of nuclear weapons programs in Iran, and that US intelligence agencies themselves admit that they don't know if Iran even wants nukes. In Burns' universe, Iran has built nukes and is planning on using them, and so has to be deterred. In short, Iran is the new Soviet Union.
Burns apparently lives in a parallel universe in which Iran has used its stock of low-enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons. And, in this parallel universe, the role of the US is to "nudge Iran into agreeing not to use its nuclear facilities to build atomic weapons" -- because apparently the Non-Proliferation Treaty and 6 years of intensive IAEA inspections which have failed to turn up any nuclear weapons program, simply do not exist in Burns' parallel universe.
But then I realized that Burns is probably writing a Tom Clancy-esque novel or something, and has confused reporting the news for pushing a plotline according to which Iran is about to or has already built nukes, and the US has to "deter" Iran from using them. Ah, see? When you buy into the fictional context, Burns suddenly makes sense.
Cyrus,
Robert Burns and John Bolton should get together and then suddenly the world is a safer place to live in! OR NOT.
Posted by: Ray | October 28, 2009 at 04:25 PM