I think that the Iran has the same right to posses a bomb just as the US! It is all about intelligenz not to use it!

The nuclear genie is now out of the bottle. Just about any country on Earth with a decent science establishment and the willingness to spend the money can now enrich uranium. It only takes more effort and money to refine that enrichment to weapons grade material. There is NO WAY the US or any other country is going to prevent the spread of knowledge and the US should not even try. It would be futile. The more the US is seen as a threat to other countries the more they are going to be willing to go for “the bomb”.
In any case it makes perfect sense to go nuclear considering that fossil fuels are going to run out someday. Eventually most countries will probably generate most of their electrical power by splitting atoms. It is just a fact of life.
The problem lies in making sure that nuclear generating countries do not become bomb makers.
Now there are several countries that have the bomb but NEVER did sign the Non Proliferation Treaty…Pakistan, India and Israel.
Iran DID sign the NPT and unless anyone can prove otherwise they have lived up to its terms which explicitly give it the right to enrich uranium. Iran denies it is making “the bomb” and even our own intelligence agencies cannot prove otherwise.
The REAL threat posed by Iran is that it is a nation of about 70 million highly intelligent people (descendants of the Persian Empire). They are not Mad Men inspite of George Bush’s rantings. Their real threat lies in their awesome natural resource holdings, their geographical location (just look at a map) and most importantly they do NOT WANT THE DOLLAR

Hi JL,

I agree with most of what you’re saying. It’s too late to keep the nuclear genie in the bottle. Iran will get the capability to produce nuclear bombs in 2009. It’s not clear if it will actually do so. It might make more sense to wait until it has the capability to produce a lot of bombs at once.

The United States cannot stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon. Israel can’t stop it either. It’s over.

Looking 20 to 30 years into the future I see many countries with the ability to produce nuclear weapons. When the time comes many countries can quickly build many nuclear weapons.

Like I said earlier, you cannot sit back and relax while the rest of the world goes to hell. At some point this must affect us all directly.

Think about America relaxing while World War II was going on. Could one really think that we wouldn’t be directly affected in some way?

In regards to the dollar, there are some things that we could do to improve the situation. We could start by balancing our budget. Also, raising interest rates would help improve the dollar.

The American empire is clearly in decline. What is going to take its place? I see the E.U. as the world’s next dominate power.

One might think that the BRIC countries might emerge as the new world power. I don’t see this happening primarily due to war. Although, Brazil might emerge as a strong power over the next 20 years.