Who cares about international relations? On the new york times today, there is a report on President Jacques Chirac giving his views on the proliferation of nuclear weapons in Iran.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/world/europe/02france.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
In summary, Mr. Chirac is retracting what he said earliar about Iran’s nuclear intentions by stating that the French will “remained committed to preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.”
What Mr. Chirac said was that, even if Iran was to have one or two nuclear bombs – which is unsure of if they really do – it was no big threat at all. Who would they bomb? Isreal? What he meant was that, even if they did try to bomb another country, the whole entire region of Tehran would be “razed” before the bomb/missle is 200 meters in the sky.
Offensive or strange as it might have been, reports have also said that Mr. Chirack recently “suffered a neurological episode in 2005″ which have made him “much less precise in conversation.”
How I view this was that though Mr. Chirac might have been right with his claim that as soon as Iran uses its nuclear power – not to say that Iran does or does not have nuclear weapons – many of the world powers will react firmly on punishing Iran, this such risk should not be taken. What the problem really is, isn’t nuclear weapons but “nuclear proliferation.” I see this as the bigger concern and thus nations should be more concern with what Iran is trying to make of their increasing uranium rather than debate on wheater or not Iran does have any nuclear weapons at all. What we certainly do not need is further threats of Iran advancing their technology in nuclear weaponry and assisting terrorist groups in a nuclear war. An extreme arguement but how i see it, America along with many countries, including France, has been doing the right thing in demanding that Iran discontinue it’s nuclear enrichment programs allegedly for the production of electricity.
To quote the man who urge President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on advancing the study of nuclear fission for military purposes during WWII, Albert Einstein once said:
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
