That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgement-day
--Channel Firing, Thomas Hardy
Sometimes I have asked myself how some countries knew years in advance that they would be going to war (ie: Germany and Britain, pre-WW1) and now I know why: events and attitudes conspire to make it inevitable. Iran is almost certainly going to have armed conflict with either Israel and/or the US:
Iran rejects curbs on nuke plans
Defying UN agency orders, Iran starts to enrich uranium. Is it for energy or a weapon?
By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
MOSCOW – Defiance plays well in Iran. That's one reason why the Islamic republic is now resuming steps toward uranium enrichment - directly flouting a UN agency's demand to stop the development of technology that could be used in a nuclear bomb.
And I feel nothing but empathy with Israel when I see a headline like this:
Israel asks UN to stop Iran's nukes
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS
Israel said Wednesday that Iran will never abandon plans to develop nuclear weapons and the issue should be moved quickly to the UN Security Council "to put an end to this nightmare."
After being endlessly tortured and attacked by a hostile middle east while being diplomatically assaulted at the UN, Israel asks in desperation for the world to wake up. But after Darfur, Iraq, Rwanda, and the Congo the UN has to be recognized as a talking shop. World history points towards the unstoppable movement of man organizing in ever larger groups to promote common interests (villages, city states, nations, trading blocs, etc) but the UN is not an effective form of this advanced organization.
Call it a 'failed world state'.
Forward we go....right towards the precipice....
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