Do you want to know why Iran has a nuclear program?
by chycho
I had an American friend tell me that she was fascinated with Iran, and wanted to know my opinion regarding Iran’s nuclear program, especially since a so-called new plant was just announced, or “revealed”, depending on your perspective and source of information.
Below you will find my reply to her question, and a re-post of the first article. Please note that these articles were written over the last few years so there is some repetition between them. Facts do not disappear over time, so I believe it’s always a good idea to repeat some of the important points.
Just to make sure that the most recent US accusations at the UN regarding Iran’s nuclear program are put into context, it’s important to know that CNN has revealed that “The United States was aware of Iran’s unfinished uranium enrichment site for several years.”
My email reply, links to previous posts, and a re-post of the first article follow:
PermalinkAfghanistan: What Are These People Thinking?
Conn Hallinan
[Afghans prepare graves for people killed by a US cowardly airstrike on Azizabad village in Herat province. Karzai attends the closing ceremony at the National Stadium for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, August 24, 2008. American missiles and bombing killed close to a 100 people, mostly children, in air strikes near the village of Azizabad in the western province of Herat, Afghanistan, August 22, 2008. The dead are 19 women, seven men, and the rest children all under 15 years of age. Photo: AFP/Reza Shirmohammad]
One of the oddest — indeed, surreal — encounters around the war in Afghanistan has to be a telephone call this past July 27. On one end of the line was historian Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History. On the other, State Department special envoy Richard Holbrooke and the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal. The question: How can Washington avoid the kind of defeat it suffered in Southeast Asia 40 years ago?
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