Mike Pouraryan
Can "On the Beach" Be Possible?
February 9th 2010 06:39
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Will The Powers-To-Be Listen....
Iran's recent moves to enrich uranium is now again in the news. Although I understand the concerns by the United States and the International Community, some of the hype is frankly mis guided and at times, provocative.
The current gang running Iran is not to be trusted. I eagerly await Feburary 11 to asess what the Green Movement is going to do. But, what I worry about is the increased military posturing and the rhetoric that may present challenges yet unimaginable. It is interesting how the two nations on the forefront of actions against Iran are the United States and Israel. It was the United States who is the only country in the world to have detonated a Bomb. Israel is the only country in the Middle East who actually possess nuclear weapons. Yet, they somehow want to prevent others from acquiring the technology. What they fail to undestand is that Iran has acquired the technology and they have to somehow figure out how to live with it.
I have written about the so-called 123 provision and how the United States is supporting the United Arab Emirates' efforts in acquiring the technology. The genie is out of the bottle. The challenge is how to control it to avoid Armageddon. This continues to bother me a great deal especially when I caught a glimpse of the flim "On the Beach". It is the story of life on Earth after a nuclear war. It turned out that Australia was the only "safe place" to be for a while until the Radiation arrived. The chiling final scenes send shivers down my spine:
Many in "main street" don't really wish to think about it. But the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink as the historical accounts proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. With all that is going on now, it is not out of the realm of realism.
I am convinced that the present political leadership understands the profound implications of making the wrong move. When we have a planet that has to deal with Food and Water Security, it seems to me that we ought to move away from this fascination with War and Weapons. It will be quite amazing to really think about how the world can really be transformed when the amount spent on weapons can be redirected to spend on schools, food security and transform technology as we know it. Is it too unrealistic a vision to have? I wonder.
The current gang running Iran is not to be trusted. I eagerly await Feburary 11 to asess what the Green Movement is going to do. But, what I worry about is the increased military posturing and the rhetoric that may present challenges yet unimaginable. It is interesting how the two nations on the forefront of actions against Iran are the United States and Israel. It was the United States who is the only country in the world to have detonated a Bomb. Israel is the only country in the Middle East who actually possess nuclear weapons. Yet, they somehow want to prevent others from acquiring the technology. What they fail to undestand is that Iran has acquired the technology and they have to somehow figure out how to live with it.
I have written about the so-called 123 provision and how the United States is supporting the United Arab Emirates' efforts in acquiring the technology. The genie is out of the bottle. The challenge is how to control it to avoid Armageddon. This continues to bother me a great deal especially when I caught a glimpse of the flim "On the Beach". It is the story of life on Earth after a nuclear war. It turned out that Australia was the only "safe place" to be for a while until the Radiation arrived. The chiling final scenes send shivers down my spine:
Many in "main street" don't really wish to think about it. But the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink as the historical accounts proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. With all that is going on now, it is not out of the realm of realism.
I am convinced that the present political leadership understands the profound implications of making the wrong move. When we have a planet that has to deal with Food and Water Security, it seems to me that we ought to move away from this fascination with War and Weapons. It will be quite amazing to really think about how the world can really be transformed when the amount spent on weapons can be redirected to spend on schools, food security and transform technology as we know it. Is it too unrealistic a vision to have? I wonder.
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