[wvns] Bombed If You Do, Bombed If You Don't
Bombed If You Do, Bombed If You Don't
by Rep. Ron Paul
December 11, 2007
http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=12033
The latest National Intelligence Estimate has been greeted by a
mixture of relief and alarm. As I have been saying all along, Iran
indeed poses no quantifiable imminent nuclear threat to us or her
neighbors. It is with much alarm, however, that we see the
administration continue to ratchet up the war rhetoric as if nothing
has changed.
Indeed nothing has changed from the administration's perspective, as
they have had this latest intelligence report for some time. Only this
week has it been made known to the public. They want it both ways with
Iran. On the one hand, they discredit the report entirely, despite it
being one of the most comprehensive intelligence reports on the
subject, with over 1,000 source notes in the document. On the other
hand, when discrediting it fails, they claim that the timing of the
abandonment of the weapons program, just as we were invading Iraq,
means our pressure must have worked, so we must keep it up with a new
round of even tougher sanctions. Russia and China are not buying this,
apparently, and again we are finding ourselves on a lonely, tenuous
platform on the world stage.
The truth is Iran is being asked to do the logically impossible feat
of proving a negative. They are being presumed guilty until proven
innocent because there is no evidence with which to indict them. There
is still no evidence that Iran, a signatory of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, has ever violated the treaty's terms – and
the terms clearly state that Iran is allowed to pursue nuclear energy
for peaceful civilian energy needs. The United States cannot
unilaterally change the terms of the treaty, and it is unfair and
unwise diplomatically to impose sanctions for no legitimate reason.
Are we to think that Iran hasn't noticed the duplicitous treatment
being received by so-called nuclear threats around the globe? If they
have been paying attention, and I think they have, they would see that
if countries do have a nuclear weapon, they tend to be left alone, or
possibly get a subsidy, but if they do not gain such a weapon then we
threaten them. Why wouldn't they want to pursue a nuclear weapon if
that is our current foreign policy? The fact remains, there is no
evidence they actually have one, or could have one any time soon, even
if they immediately resumed a weapons program.
Our badly misguided foreign policy has already driven this country's
economy to the brink of bankruptcy with one war based on
misinformation. It is unthinkable that despite the lack of any
evidence of a threat, some are still charging headstrong into yet
another war in the Middle East when what we ought to be doing is
coming home from Iraq, coming home from Korea, coming home from
Germany, and defending our own soil. We do not need to be interfering
in the internal affairs of other countries and waging war when honest
trade, friendship, and diplomacy are the true paths to peace and
prosperity.
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