Comments on: Iran's Nuclear Ambitions http://www.radioopensource.org/irans-nuclear-ambitions/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:27:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nikos http://www.radioopensource.org/irans-nuclear-ambitions/#comment-68902 Nikos Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:20:36 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=402#comment-68902 KCRW's 3/7/06 edition of 'To the Point' had a meaty segment on the brewing showdown between Iran and the fearful West: http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?tmplt_type=program&show_code=tp KCRW’s 3/7/06 edition of ‘To the Point’ had a meaty segment on the brewing showdown between Iran and the fearful West:

http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?tmplt_type=program&show_code=tp

]]> By: Nikos http://www.radioopensource.org/irans-nuclear-ambitions/#comment-68901 Nikos Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:39:26 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=402#comment-68901 Despite the distaste I always feel when recommending a panel of pundits that include an equivocating blowhard propagandist employed by the patently insane and egomaniacal religio-fascist Sun Myung Moon, this weekend’s ‘Left, Right, & Center’ started its 27-minute duration with a great little segment on the Pakistan-India-Iran nuclear triangle. http://www.kcrw.com/show/lr Despite the distaste I always feel when recommending a panel of pundits that include an equivocating blowhard propagandist employed by the patently insane and egomaniacal religio-fascist Sun Myung Moon, this weekend’s ‘Left, Right, & Center’ started its 27-minute duration with a great little segment on the Pakistan-India-Iran nuclear triangle.

http://www.kcrw.com/show/lr

]]> By: tbrucia http://www.radioopensource.org/irans-nuclear-ambitions/#comment-68900 tbrucia Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:43:35 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=402#comment-68900 Maybe I'm missing out on the hysteria, but I don't remember all this hullabaloo about the development of nuclear weapons by Israel, Pakistan, and Indian (and going back further, to China). Iran is surrounded by a ring of nuclear powers, and has US troops to each side: in the West, in Iraq, and in the east, in Afghanistan. --- I keep wondering how the US would react if Canada, Mexico, and Cuba all possessed nuclear weapons, and if there were Chinese troops stationed in Quebec, and in Mexico.... If there is a risk of nuclear conflagration in the world -- and there definitely is -- the match was lit 50 years ago, and the fire has been smouldering ever since. It may well be that only a nuclear exchange (India v. Pakistan?) will provide the object lesson to the world strong enough to make the planet a 'nuke-free zone'. Unfortunately, this may happen in our lifetimes, rather than in those of our kids or grandkids... Maybe I’m missing out on the hysteria, but I don’t remember all this hullabaloo about the development of nuclear weapons by Israel, Pakistan, and Indian (and going back further, to China). Iran is surrounded by a ring of nuclear powers, and has US troops to each side: in the West, in Iraq, and in the east, in Afghanistan. — I keep wondering how the US would react if Canada, Mexico, and Cuba all possessed nuclear weapons, and if there were Chinese troops stationed in Quebec, and in Mexico…. If there is a risk of nuclear conflagration in the world — and there definitely is — the match was lit 50 years ago, and the fire has been smouldering ever since. It may well be that only a nuclear exchange (India v. Pakistan?) will provide the object lesson to the world strong enough to make the planet a ‘nuke-free zone’. Unfortunately, this may happen in our lifetimes, rather than in those of our kids or grandkids…

]]> By: Nikos http://www.radioopensource.org/irans-nuclear-ambitions/#comment-68899 Nikos Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:58:08 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=402#comment-68899 Here's a solid rebuke to my ignorant worries that the Islamic Middle East monolithic: http://www.metransparent.com/english.html (This, at minimum, is an apologetic 'heads-up' to Potter and several other advocates for moderation.) Here’s a solid rebuke to my ignorant worries that the Islamic Middle East monolithic:

http://www.metransparent.com/english.html

(This, at minimum, is an apologetic ‘heads-up’ to Potter and several other advocates for moderation.)

]]> By: Nikos http://www.radioopensource.org/irans-nuclear-ambitions/#comment-68898 Nikos Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:17:48 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=402#comment-68898 Welcome back, Potter! To you and mlnary: when viewed from a perspective distant enough to include the side-shadows shrouding Islam’s radical and medieval militants, I worry that idealistic hopes of engaging Iran in negotiation is fool’s gold. (You might find interesting-as-background my posts, especially the third, in the Cartoons/New Zealand thread.) Ever since eradicating the Nazis (the real ones, not the play-acting juvenile delinquent American revivalists), the West hasn’t had to assess a totalitarian and would-be genocidal threat like that which seethes in the Muslim lands we so callously manipulated and exploited in the 20th Century. Are we culpable? Yup. Are we hypocrites? Double yup. Does this hypocritical culpability mean we should ignore Iran’s stated intentions to obliterate a nation it considers an abomination, and populated by filthy subhuman vermin? Nope. Hitler made his murderous intentions plain in Mein Kampf. Europe chose not to take him at his published word, but to view his ‘plans’ to eradicate the Jews and Slavs as a deplorable and jingoistic method to build a party, but not as a real possibility. We ignore the Iranian mullah’s stated intentions at our own peril. Welcome back, Potter!

To you and mlnary: when viewed from a perspective distant enough to include the side-shadows shrouding Islam’s radical and medieval militants, I worry that idealistic hopes of engaging Iran in negotiation is fool’s gold. (You might find interesting-as-background my posts, especially the third, in the Cartoons/New Zealand thread.)

Ever since eradicating the Nazis (the real ones, not the play-acting juvenile delinquent American revivalists), the West hasn’t had to assess a totalitarian and would-be genocidal threat like that which seethes in the Muslim lands we so callously manipulated and exploited in the 20th Century.

Are we culpable? Yup.

Are we hypocrites? Double yup.

Does this hypocritical culpability mean we should ignore Iran’s stated intentions to obliterate a nation it considers an abomination, and populated by filthy subhuman vermin?

Nope.

Hitler made his murderous intentions plain in Mein Kampf. Europe chose not to take him at his published word, but to view his ‘plans’ to eradicate the Jews and Slavs as a deplorable and jingoistic method to build a party, but not as a real possibility.

We ignore the Iranian mullah’s stated intentions at our own peril.

]]> By: Peter B http://www.radioopensource.org/irans-nuclear-ambitions/#comment-68897 Peter B Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:19:53 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=402#comment-68897 Anyone have any valuable resources on the Shah and the Mullahs? I feel like I need to do some reading on this. Anyone have any valuable resources on the Shah and the Mullahs?

I feel like I need to do some reading on this.

]]> By: fiddlesticks http://www.radioopensource.org/irans-nuclear-ambitions/#comment-68896 fiddlesticks Mon, 06 Feb 2006 03:55:42 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=402#comment-68896 I agree with John McCain when he says: "There is only one thing worse than military action," he said, "and that is a nuclear-armed Iran." I agree with John McCain when he says:

“There is only one thing worse than military action,” he said, “and that is a nuclear-armed Iran.”

]]> By: gmcampbell http://www.radioopensource.org/irans-nuclear-ambitions/#comment-68895 gmcampbell Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:05:43 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=402#comment-68895 Chris: I love your show and the format, but I hate it when you only represent one side of an issue. All of your guests for this show have one viewpoint on Iran and although I appreciate their viewpoint, I would also like to hear other viewpoints. Don't always lean so far left. Chris: I love your show and the format, but I hate it when you only represent one side of an issue. All of your guests for this show have one viewpoint on Iran and although I appreciate their viewpoint, I would also like to hear other viewpoints. Don’t always lean so far left.

]]> By: Potter http://www.radioopensource.org/irans-nuclear-ambitions/#comment-68894 Potter Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:32:59 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=402#comment-68894 Nikos- I am going out of town for the week- so no offense by no answer. Anyway I post too much. Nikos- I am going out of town for the week- so no offense by no answer. Anyway I post too much.

]]> By: Nikos http://www.radioopensource.org/irans-nuclear-ambitions/#comment-68893 Nikos Sat, 04 Feb 2006 20:58:39 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=402#comment-68893 Potter, thanks. I'll try to take up the harsher (?) 'realist' angle if Shriber doesn't show up anymore (C'mon Shriber! I can't do it on my own!), but I can't hope to match his passion. I've a likely reply to mlnary and to you too brewing in the musty nooks of my mind, but it will have to wait until later this evening (if we still have power after the current Puget Sound gale-storm blows itself out). Also, you might find interersting a silly little 'mini-essay' I gave in a reply to Jazzman on the 'Morality, GG or E' thread. (And I'd value your take on it if you have one.) Potter, thanks. I’ll try to take up the harsher (?) ‘realist’ angle if Shriber doesn’t show up anymore (C’mon Shriber! I can’t do it on my own!), but I can’t hope to match his passion. I’ve a likely reply to mlnary and to you too brewing in the musty nooks of my mind, but it will have to wait until later this evening (if we still have power after the current Puget Sound gale-storm blows itself out).

Also, you might find interersting a silly little ‘mini-essay’ I gave in a reply to Jazzman on the ‘Morality, GG or E’ thread. (And I’d value your take on it if you have one.)

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