Iran Daily

A question has surfaced in Iran regarding USA's purported duplicity on the nuclear issue, that is, why can not Iran have nuclear technology when the USA has nuclear technology? I would like to provide you one American's perspective to that question.

The USA has a history of protecting sea lanes for US commerce and global trade, from President Jefferson about 1810 with the Barbary Coast, defeating pirates there, and continuing in earnest to President T.Rosevelt at war when he was bent on civilizing the world. This continued with President Wilson in WWI, President F.Rosevelt in WWII, President Truman in N.Korea, President Johnson in Vietnam, and Bush Sr in Iraq, President Clinton in Bosnia, and current President Bush Jr in Iraq. The list is more complete than these examples. As a result, the USA has an $8 trillion debt, but then, the Nazis, Imperial Japan, Stalin's Soviets, and the Sino-Communists, those majors posing threats to world peace and global trade, are history. Did the USA get its money's worth? Well, goods can be shipped around the world, these days, in relative peace, as USA carrier battle groups play world police protecting those free trade lanes. The Russians and Chinese are becoming good USA trading partners and friends, as did Germany and Japan. The USA tried to buy out the crazy guy in N. Korea, but globalized traders, Russia, China, Japan, and S.Korea are at least helping to contain the threat in N.Korea. Japan is now spending on missile defense in that region. Will Japan get its money's worth? Did the USA get its money's worth to build, maintain, and promote civilization and globalization? Do others eventually benefit from this civilization and globalization? I think so, as the poor third world populations increase their standards of living.

It has been the USA military might and diplomacy over the last century that has lead to a more peaceful world in which Iran can sell its oil. Sure, the USA has made diplomacy mistakes, but the screams of "death to America" are really getting old, like cheerleaders at a football game all ready lost. And now, the USA has new threat in the middle east, a nuclear Iran, posing to destabilize the middle east. The question of USA and Iran having the same power and responsibility goes to the maturity of the country. The USA has 225 years of democracy with many checks and balances to political power, whereas Iran has zero years, as the Mullahs in Iran do not have such checks and balances. With Iran saying that Israel should be wiped off the map, saying death to America, feeding the islamo-facist terrorist, feeding terrorizing Hesbala in Lebanon, feeding terrorizing Hamas in Palestine, feeding insurgents in Iraq, and misleading nuclear inspectors for years, Iran, as a theocratic quasi-democracy, has not matured enough socially to assume the responsibility of protecting nuclear materials from would be terrorists, nor mature enough and without necessity to be allowed to possess enriched nuclear materials, nor with sufficient justification for the possession of nuclear arms.

As it is, Iran has threaten Israel with extinction and has pursued a course of nuclearization, and the two are inherently incompatible in view of the world's propensity to civilize the world by civilized nation states such as Russia, China, Japan, Australia, Britain, Germany, France, USA, inter alia, of economically and politically connected set of countries, whether are not there are those defiant nations who first resist but then eventually join the march of human cultural evolution towards peaceful interactions. If Iran remains defiant, the UN or at least the USA will be forced into a naval and air blockade of Iran, in an oil for food blockade. Iran will initially resist, as the USA taps into its strategic reserves, and there would be $100 oil and a global economic recession, as Iran's economy falls to the ground. This assumes, of course, that Israel's Mr. Netenyahu is not elected in March 2006 and does not strike Iran in advance. With several USA carrier battle groups siting in the Persian gulf, it would be only a matter of time before Iran makes a second mistake and "inadvertantly" strikes USA military forces. Like the Vietnam Token Resolution, the USA would counter-strike, and take out Iranian missile batteries, above ground nuclear facilities, and below ground tunnel entrances. Then, to cease fire, Iran will have to negotiate a treaty which may include that Mullahs do not control the government, that women can vote, and that Iran pay for the cost of the USA blockade, all the while the Iranian economy is destroyed.

The hard-line controlling Mullahs of Iran will take the Iranian population down with them, unless a change of posture is quickly taken. The deal with Russia seems a good one. Iran should move away from terrorism supporting posture, and, work with the west and work with the Russians and Chinese who also don’t want war, so as to improve Iran's standard of living, rather than drive itself into the ground, in its present hostile manner. It would be a mistake to think the west would allow Iran possession of nuclear technology without adequate inspections, safeguards, and process limitations, especially in view of the hate of the west that radiates from Tehran. In stead of the hate speech directed towards the west, Iran should be cooperative with the west, and compliant to international concerns. While Iran may feel and is surrounded these days with pro-west anti-terrorism countries, Iran should understand that the USA will stand against international terrorism and nuclearization of Iran raising tensions in the middle east and posing threats to those pro-west anti-terrorism countries and trade in that region. The west will protect its global investment. The Jihadist mentality has kept the Islamic world for centuries from progressing civilly, notwithstanding the oil income. The oil income is the fuel towards building the nuclear facilities, yet it is that trade globalization that is now threaten by such facilities. Iran's oil income should not be used to defeat itself. Iran's oil income should be used to increase the prosperity in Iran without global confrontation. Like it or not, Iran is a member of the world, and its globalization, and enjoys the benefits of international trade. Iran must be responsible vis-à-vis these benefits, and negotiate with others and reach suitable arrangements to co-exist peacefully. Freedom to globally exploit oil market has its costs and comes with responsibility and civility. Iran has the freedom to sell oil on world markets, but has the responsibility to cooperate with the global community. Human cultural evolution has accelerated over the last 100 years, lead mostly by the west, and has resulted in a more peaceful world and globalized trading partners. Iran is like a tree standing alone in the sand with a big wind blowing, and Iran must decide to either bend or break. So there is the choice. The controlling Mullahs need to understand that nether they nor Iran can stop the 5000 year global progress of human cultural evolution.

The answer to the question poised is that adults (USA) do not let children (Iran) to play with guns, for very good reasons, even though some children believe they can operated and possess guns safely, and some actually do. Likewise, the world community will not allow a hostile theocratic Iran to have nuclear processing capabilities without sufficient safeguards, inspections, and process limitations, so that, hostile theocratic Iran does not obtain nuclear materials that could possibly be used to further its hostile rhetoric, conduct, and associations. I pray Iran will negotiate suitable arrangements with the west and avoid the pending titanic collision, which Iran will certainly lose at great costs, and hopefully, after several decades of peaceful and cooperative civility, Iran will have matured as a fully transparent democracy, without confrontational theocratic control, but with checks and balances, with free and fair elections, with all having the right to vote, when Iran would then be trusted by all as a good friend and good global trading partner. I pray the USA and Iran will become good friends and trading partners. God Willing

Sincerely
Derrick Michael Reid

Laguna Beach CA 92651
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Iran Dail publish my letter, but they cut 1/3 of my letter as follows, I guess I am only worth 2/3 of what I write.

That is still good for a garage philosopher.

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Dear Editor,

I wanted to write you, and express my views as a private citizen of the USA. While politicians may jockey for advantage in world opinion, I would like to have a heart-to-heart communication. I have two major concerns, the nuclear issue and women's rights.
I have lived in Southern California all my life, and I have met many Iranians living here. Without exception, all the Persians I have met have been polite, good, and wonderful people, whom I am proud to call my dear friends. And so, I can not understand why our two governments can not get along, and so I surmise. As I do not fully understand Persian culture, no disrespect is intended by this letter.

I can appreciate traditional cultural values, as a conservative American. But I must say my heart goes out to Iranian women who are beaten by their husbands without court redress and who are denied the right to vote. We here in the USA also denied women the right to vote, but we have matured over the last century, and have recognized that women have equal brains and should be equal citizens in all regards. And so, I understand the traditional roles, and values, but think Iranian women should not only be placed on a pedestal for their beauty and kind heart, but also for their inherent equal intellectual capacity. Women, more often than not, bring to the table a compassionate perspective, that may be lost by men at times, and like a child, our societies need both men and women to play active roles in guiding society to a better future.

With respect to the nuclear issue, I think I must go back in time to obtain full understanding. It starts with the Nazi in Germany in World War II, and the ruthless persecution of Jews there. In the after math of WWII, the powers that be, mostly the British set up a Jewish state in Palestine, to provide the Jews a safe homeland. While the intent was a good one, what was the mistake is not getting Arab consent in advance. That was a big mistake by the western powers, and has lead to wars in that region. To this history, I express my sincere regrets. But it has been 60 years, and the dismantling of Israel, and the predictable resulting slaughter of Jews there is not possible. Now Israel, faced with Arab resentment and threats, went on the offensive, and captured more Muslim land. Israel pre se did not do anything wrong in this regard, in defending itself, and the capture of land during subsequent wars, is a legitimate war prize. But Israel must understand the original sin of western powers taking Arab land without consent. And so, I believe that Israel must withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank, and the Goland Heights, as that is the moral, just, and fair thing to do, and Israel and Western Powers must also to fully compensate the Arabs for that original sin of the Western powers post WWII. I also think that Israel must not seek to take exclusive control of Jerusalem, as a necessary part of reconciliation. I understand the legitimate resentment by Arabs and Muslims for the western power's original sin in 1947, and Israel must do all that is possible to compensate them for that sin. As such, I understand why, I think, the Muslims and Arabs dislike Israel so much, and resent the Western Powers. In my own way, I apologize for that Original 1947 Sin. I understand that terrorism is really an act of war fueled by that legitimate resentment. The USA, with it democratic principles, believing democracies best serves world peace, trade, and increased living standards, will support all and any democracies, including Israel, even in the face of legitimate Muslim resentment. In furtherance of this legitimate Muslim resentment, terrorist acts of war are directed at the US and Israel.

In my travels, I find that understanding the culture first, bring better understanding, and so I try to understand the Persian perspective, and ask that Persians try to understand our perspective. We Americans seek world trade as a means to promote world peace, and to increase standards of living world wide, and we seek to keep sea lanes open for that purpose. We do not seek territorial ambitions, nor to dominate others, but rather to promote a rule set that increases trade and improves living standards. In this regard, in the middle of the last century, and to this day, there are many non-democratic countries in the middle east. In the past, the US has supported "Strong-Man" rule there, to keep a lid on extremists, so that US could conduct its trade in peace. However, is supporting strong-men, such as the Shaw of Iran, we did not live up to our principles of supporting evolution into democracies. This was another policy mistake by the USA. We should have supported strong-men rule, only if they agree to implement democratic reforms to give all an outlet to express their grievances. Only in this way, can all participate in the affairs of state. Again, I sincerely apologize for our past mistakes. We are not prefect, but we do learn slowly over time from our mistakes, be it slavery, women's right, racial tolerance, the original 1947 sin, or the unequivocal support of strong-men in the middle east. Please forgive us, and understand we want Iran to be full partners with us in this modern world. We truly wish Iran to prosper in democratic principles in a globalized world economy.

I beg Iran and the Iranian people, for understanding, and to forgive the original 1947 sin while seeking just compensation for those affected. I beg Iran and the Iranian people, for understanding, and to forgive our past support of strong-man rule in the middle east. I pray to God Almighty, that the USA and Iran will drop the hostility, open up normalized relations, and become friends in trade. God Willing.

Sincerely,

Derrick Michael Reid

President Bush, some Reflection on Iran

India has a history of free speech, and an ability to control extreme to some extent, that is, will sit on the crazies to a large extent, to maintain order. Isolated acts of terror will be with us for decades, I am afraid.

The Bomb, well at least Pakistan and India are somewhat non-hostile towards teach other, but Death to America or Wipe Israel of the Map, coupled with the BOMB, is to simply literal, to hope, we can all just get along.

Scary world out there.
I am hiding in the garage, being very brave on the blog.

In the cold war, we drew a stalemate in Korea, a loss in Vietnam, but in the end, we prevailed. Dont dismiss the loss in Vietnam as not be at least noble in principle, though flawed in tactical execution.

As to Iran, there will be no invasion where the 18yo are in mass engaged, but I see a high tech war of success. The military has come along way since the days of vietnam, and yes the losses in Iraq are regrettable, but in the scale of things, in relation, fairly small, considering, though 2000 dead and 17000 injured is difficult, for even a nation of 300,000,000.

Iran will blink, I hope, because, I dont think we really have a choice, as with N.Korea, the pressure must be on, but in N.Korea we have big brother China who wants US trade, and can keep Korea in check, Kim in N.Korea is not driven by religious fanaticism, but calculated power trips.

Iran is different. If those nuts can blow them selves up at the drop of a hat, well, you just cant let them have the bomb, and the Israelis wont stand for it, so something must be done, to wit, the stand off blockade until submission or a Gulf of Tonken like resolution, where we pound their facilities and missile batteries into oblivion, while putting the Iraq and Afghan forces on alert for the wave of crazies to follow.

Sick chit for sure, but just hoping, we can all get along, is unfortunately, the wrong move against this type of mentality.

The bottom line:

I am just hoping and praying, in the event of a blockade, that the Iraqi and Afghan national forces can provide a sufficient screen for US forces remaining, and sweep the zealot iranian hoards and their mercenaries from mass slaughter of US troops from suicide bombers coming out of Iran, and elsewhere as funded by Iran and Al Quieda operatives, just like we experienced in Iraq up to this point, but is now dropping off finally. The drop off of US casualties, implying Iraqi force stabilization, is what Bushie has been waiting for, before confronting Iran, the last significant nut to crack in the War on Terror flowing from the intolerant islamic world.