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Sending a message (of weakness and capitulation)

Published Tuesday, June 06, 2006 by Editor | E-mail this post

The world’s major powers [sic]: Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and the US have agreed to an extremely generous incentive package to be presented to Iran. The package includes a host of favorable trade concessions to the Islamic Republic and technology transfers in exchange for one thing: Iran must end uranium enrichment and terminate is nuclear program.

The Iranians, who have rejected other such offers in the past, have reacted cautiously to the proposal. Regardless of whether Iran accepts or rejects this proposal it is a lose lose scenario for the West. If Iran accepts the offer, which they probably won’t, a dangerous precedent will be set, soon the developing world and tyrants-in-training will follow Iran’s lead in extorting financial concessions from the West under the threat of developing an indigenous nuclear program. Such appeasement cannot work. This proposal serves only to reward Iran for her renegade behavior and because of persistent inaction first by the EU3 and then by the UN, Iran has nothing to fear from non-compliance.

As we have seen in the distant and recent past, such efforts NEVER yield the desired results, lest we forget the example of North Korea, who agreed to a host of incentives provided by the US, yet they flagrantly violated the agreement and now possess a nuclear weapons capability. Iran is following the same example. If they agree to the West’s appeasement package, the West will be forced to offer a dozen more such packages to every rogue state with nuclear ambitions. If they do not accept this package, the world will teeter on nuclear extermination as Iran will most certainly proliferate once its nuclear weapons capability is established.
Link to New York Times article

11 Responses to “Sending a message (of weakness and capitulation)”

Gregdn on June 06, 2006

My understanding of Libertarianism is that it essentially espouses an isolationist view of foreign policy. Yours is indistinguishable from the Neocons.
Bush is starting to realize the obvious: Iran is going to get the bomb, but it won't be as destabilizing as people (like you) obviously think. And there's nothing we can do about it anyway.
In '47 the Russians were 'crazy' and sure to use it (the Bomb).
In '64 it was the Chinese
in '98 we were sure that Pakistan and India would go at it.
The Phalanx on June 06, 2006

There’s nothing worse that a person obsessed with labels…that’s like saying all black people have to like rap music or all Asians are straight A students, such arguments are ludicrous…

The position of the Phalanx is “indistinguishable from the Neocons.” What nonsense, what position would that be? That appeasement doesn’t work? The position of the Phalanx is that offering Iran lucrative trade deals and technology transfers will do nothing to dissuade a tyrannical regime…hardly the position of a right wing extremist.

As numerous Phalanx posts have noted it isn’t a question of whether Iran will gain a nuclear weapons capability, they will and nothing can stop that…the premise of the Phalanx is not that Iran will use the bomb but they WILL proliferate, either the bomb itself or nuclear technology essential to develop one, just as Pakistan and China did, contrary to your insinuations that these contraries have posed no threat to global stability, since acquiring such weapons.

Furthermore, Iran unlike these other nations has a long history of supporting terror and has vowed to bring about a global Islamic empire while wiping its enemies off the map.
The Phalanx on June 06, 2006

By the way the Russians got the bomb in 1949
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