Posted by
arandomguy on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:50:37 PM
There are meetings taking place in Paris today, between the five permanent members of the UN security council, where they will discuss possible sanctions against Iran - which has been defiant since August 31. The US, France and Britain hope to impose quick sanctions against Iran, in the hopes of curbing them to the demands of the western powers that they disarm, and immediately halt their uranium enrichment programs.
Only China and Russia, holdouts from the beginning of the endavour, are still unwilling to support sanctions against Iran. "We believe that to impose these kind of sanctions would be ... disproportionate to the real situation. We will achieve the opposite results," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
I disagree. I believe that not imposing these sanctions are "disproportionate to the real situation" and "will achieve the opposite results." What kind of nonsense is this? Disproportionate? What exactly is proportionate then? When Iran has nuked Israel? When Iran has nuked the US? When the truth - that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a suicidal lunatic - is revealed, and global nuclear war breaks out?
At what point is enough diplomacy enough, and the powers are just willing to employ sanctions to get the desired result - which in this case, is extremely necessary, because the alternative is to have a radical islamist government armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons.
Not only do the Russians oppose sanctions, but they claim that those who want to impose them are morally wrong and unjust. This is from the same Russia that assassinates its political challengers. This is from the same Russia that curbs Democracy at every turn. The same Russia that is like a drug-addicted cousin - started out bad (USSR) got better, (early democracy) and is now gradually descending back into the addiction (Communism).
This is the Russia that is trying to lecture the United States on what is moral? Have the Russians taken a look in the mirror lately? They are perhaps one of the worst "free & democratic" states in the world (though admittedly much better off than almost every other country).
Russia needs to buckle up and support sanctions, or the nukes will be flying within years. If we cannot stop the Iranian islamofascists now, we will have to do it later.
And the result, will be nuclear war.
Why don't the Russians understand that?