Things are, most certainly, screwed up somewhere else. Many Indians are already angry on the U.S. since long as the man expected to lead India in 2014 is not legally allowed to enter the United States. The reason: his involvement in anti-Muslim riots that killed more than 2,000 people. The travel restriction is insulting to many Indians and threatens future U.S.-India relations. Now, added to that latent inferno was to arrest the Indian deputy consul Devyani Khobragade on a minor visa and domestic labour charge, and putting her in the general prison population and subjected her to a strip search.
I’m with Prof. Cole that the U.S. police might have become militarised and they do humiliating practices routinely with many of its citizens. But this may not be as simple a case as it looks. Police, almost everywhere, gets militarised, and they do these things routinely everywhere with their ’common people’, not with the powerful ones, and obviously not with foreign diplomats. It’s maybe a case of politically-charged high voltage ‘setting off’ activity that is directed to make the Indians angry more and more while their general elections are approaching…
Reporting on the ‘Nuclear Talks’ at Geneva, and its interim outcome s far has to have two dimensions: technical and diplomatic. Regarding the technical aspects, one can really be somewhat puzzled by the emphasis put on France’s supposed expertise about Iran’s nuclear programme. Of course, France has a lot of nuclear energy expertise but how it used it is interesting. By their point, France is right that once Iran fuels and starts producing a reactor designed to generate plutonium there is no going back. It is irretrievably a weapons programme. It’s okay for anyone familiar with the production of nuclear weapons. Stopping it is the key to preventing other countries, e.g., the Saudis, from building their own nuclear capabilities to respond to Iran’s path. Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium is mostly in the form of uranium hexafluoride, (UF6) which is the gas spun in the centrifuges to separate the lighter U235 isotope from the heavier U238 natural uranium. To get to bomb ready highly enriched uranium, Iran must convert the gas form back to powdered fuel, sinter the powder, and using special equipment, turn the powdered metal into solid fuel elements. Nuclear fuel as 90 percent U-235 in solid form must be shaped by machine processes into specific configurations to make a working bomb. It needs more than centrifuges. It needs highly specialised machine tools. Simply having a lot of highly enriched UF6, the gas form, doesn’t make a bomb or much of a potential to build one. So, it ‘s easy to follow by the smart Western intelligence to tell whether or not Iran is taking that next step, which is to covert the gaseous UF6 back into solid form. Everybody knows that Iran isn’t on that threshold. So, why this fuss?
Israel (and Saudi Arabia) wants to crash Iran. The extremists in Iran, Saudi Arabia, United States and E.U. are all unified to stop a deal, because it would spoil their broth. Anyway, no one was expecting a deal at this round, and thus, France’s position may not be so important. I believe, they can certainly do the thing what the U.S. and the E.U. already have thought.
President Obama has a brilliant rationale to stand against the oil industry but can he, or should he do so? Money buys, and attracts all…If we track the money flow, we’ll get the hint. The oil industry is liked to security industries around the world…agencies are involved with them and follow leads. Though we see the politicians and bureaucrats are the one who run the governments, real people are different. This is why regardless of which party controls the branches of government, we see a government’s policy keeping on unchanged. However, a certain party, or sect, in most of the cases, in most countries, dominate the bureaucracy, or to say it more clearly, dominate the military and security agencies, and they're perhaps who controls money. oil industry is thought to be one of them. So, the decision-making often goes beyond the control of the chief executive of a country (with some exception, of course). However, the U.S. is perhaps in an 'unstable' situation because its economy is performing badly and there is wide wide inequality amongst it citizenry. So, interests of parties, groups, leaders differ, and though they want to control all in the world, they may not succeed always. However, time hasn’t come to conclude, but it signifies that the American cowboy days are fading...So, President Obama has an opportunity...and it's now the matter to observe what happens...
Netanyahu's attempts over the past years to convince the American President that Iran is the world's number one security threat, akin to but more dangerous than North Korea has failed. And now, with the new 'charm offensive' by the new Iranian President, he seems to have run into the sand. Now, Netanyahu's leadership is under challenge as well as his personal survival as the leader of the Israeli nation because majority of his countrymen including the political right believe that e failed to pursue the goal, ultimate destruction of Iran. So, though he know well that his unilateral attack plan has technical and practical difficulties, he might well be seriously thinking a ssuch to bring in the American military into the conflict.
Why did Netanyahu's attempts over the past years to convince the American President that Iran is the world's number one security threat, akin to but more dangerous than North Korea? It was needed to get the Palestinian issue out-focused. Though Israel is believed to have technical and practical difficulties of mounting unilateral strikes against Iran, he has to survive, at least, in the face of radical Israelis' mounting attack on him that he has missed the goal, as according to a recent poll, 78% of them are sceptic about his performance, as do numerous American and Israeli commentators, and Israel's political right. So, he, perhaps has little option but to engage the U.S. somehow in a war with Iran.
Things are, most certainly, screwed up somewhere else. Many Indians are already angry on the U.S. since long as the man expected to lead India in 2014 is not legally allowed to enter the United States. The reason: his involvement in anti-Muslim riots that killed more than 2,000 people. The travel restriction is insulting to many Indians and threatens future U.S.-India relations. Now, added to that latent inferno was to arrest the Indian deputy consul Devyani Khobragade on a minor visa and domestic labour charge, and putting her in the general prison population and subjected her to a strip search.
I’m with Prof. Cole that the U.S. police might have become militarised and they do humiliating practices routinely with many of its citizens. But this may not be as simple a case as it looks. Police, almost everywhere, gets militarised, and they do these things routinely everywhere with their ’common people’, not with the powerful ones, and obviously not with foreign diplomats. It’s maybe a case of politically-charged high voltage ‘setting off’ activity that is directed to make the Indians angry more and more while their general elections are approaching…
Reporting on the ‘Nuclear Talks’ at Geneva, and its interim outcome s far has to have two dimensions: technical and diplomatic. Regarding the technical aspects, one can really be somewhat puzzled by the emphasis put on France’s supposed expertise about Iran’s nuclear programme. Of course, France has a lot of nuclear energy expertise but how it used it is interesting. By their point, France is right that once Iran fuels and starts producing a reactor designed to generate plutonium there is no going back. It is irretrievably a weapons programme. It’s okay for anyone familiar with the production of nuclear weapons. Stopping it is the key to preventing other countries, e.g., the Saudis, from building their own nuclear capabilities to respond to Iran’s path. Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium is mostly in the form of uranium hexafluoride, (UF6) which is the gas spun in the centrifuges to separate the lighter U235 isotope from the heavier U238 natural uranium. To get to bomb ready highly enriched uranium, Iran must convert the gas form back to powdered fuel, sinter the powder, and using special equipment, turn the powdered metal into solid fuel elements. Nuclear fuel as 90 percent U-235 in solid form must be shaped by machine processes into specific configurations to make a working bomb. It needs more than centrifuges. It needs highly specialised machine tools. Simply having a lot of highly enriched UF6, the gas form, doesn’t make a bomb or much of a potential to build one. So, it ‘s easy to follow by the smart Western intelligence to tell whether or not Iran is taking that next step, which is to covert the gaseous UF6 back into solid form. Everybody knows that Iran isn’t on that threshold. So, why this fuss?
Israel (and Saudi Arabia) wants to crash Iran. The extremists in Iran, Saudi Arabia, United States and E.U. are all unified to stop a deal, because it would spoil their broth. Anyway, no one was expecting a deal at this round, and thus, France’s position may not be so important. I believe, they can certainly do the thing what the U.S. and the E.U. already have thought.
President Obama has a brilliant rationale to stand against the oil industry but can he, or should he do so? Money buys, and attracts all…If we track the money flow, we’ll get the hint. The oil industry is liked to security industries around the world…agencies are involved with them and follow leads. Though we see the politicians and bureaucrats are the one who run the governments, real people are different. This is why regardless of which party controls the branches of government, we see a government’s policy keeping on unchanged. However, a certain party, or sect, in most of the cases, in most countries, dominate the bureaucracy, or to say it more clearly, dominate the military and security agencies, and they're perhaps who controls money. oil industry is thought to be one of them. So, the decision-making often goes beyond the control of the chief executive of a country (with some exception, of course). However, the U.S. is perhaps in an 'unstable' situation because its economy is performing badly and there is wide wide inequality amongst it citizenry. So, interests of parties, groups, leaders differ, and though they want to control all in the world, they may not succeed always. However, time hasn’t come to conclude, but it signifies that the American cowboy days are fading...So, President Obama has an opportunity...and it's now the matter to observe what happens...
Netanyahu's attempts over the past years to convince the American President that Iran is the world's number one security threat, akin to but more dangerous than North Korea has failed. And now, with the new 'charm offensive' by the new Iranian President, he seems to have run into the sand. Now, Netanyahu's leadership is under challenge as well as his personal survival as the leader of the Israeli nation because majority of his countrymen including the political right believe that e failed to pursue the goal, ultimate destruction of Iran. So, though he know well that his unilateral attack plan has technical and practical difficulties, he might well be seriously thinking a ssuch to bring in the American military into the conflict.
Why did Netanyahu's attempts over the past years to convince the American President that Iran is the world's number one security threat, akin to but more dangerous than North Korea? It was needed to get the Palestinian issue out-focused. Though Israel is believed to have technical and practical difficulties of mounting unilateral strikes against Iran, he has to survive, at least, in the face of radical Israelis' mounting attack on him that he has missed the goal, as according to a recent poll, 78% of them are sceptic about his performance, as do numerous American and Israeli commentators, and Israel's political right. So, he, perhaps has little option but to engage the U.S. somehow in a war with Iran.