The BBC reports that Iran has claimed the enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons. This is incredibly scary. I also heard somewhere (I don't remember where) that it is possible Bush has been setting operations in motion to "smart" nuke these nuclear facilities in Iran.

I don't know if I would be such a good Mennonite, as I don't think it would be wrong, pending drastic circumstances, to use force to disable Iran's opportunity for weapons of this caliber. If we do use force, however, it is a sure bet that we would incur a world-wide $#!& storm.

I do have qualms with the possibility of using U.S. nukes to take out Iranian nukes. The irony of such a thing is almost so striking that I could almost gloss over the fact that we would be hypocrites. I don't endorse such weapons on any circumstance, but to use nukes to prevent another country from having them...well that seems odd.

The implications of such an action reach farther than Iran or the entire middle-east. It comes down to Pakistan and North Korea. China, a fellow arms bearer may be iffy at best as to which side they will jump on when things get really scary.

Maybe I could justify it, if we were a police state. We sure act like one at times. However, we only act as a police state to preserve our own intentions. Thus, we are not agents of justice or keeping the peace. We are non-neutral and thus instigators. We move into Iraq quickly, but we let genocide reign on and on...and on some more in Sudan. We let Mugabe starve his people. We let other such atrocities occur world-wide, but they do not have much implication on our country's interests, so we don't care.

Not only that, but the precedence our current administration has set does not give much confidence to the wavering supporter to occupying Iran. No doubt the rhetoric will have to be chosen a bit more wisely this time around, but it will be there. We have a history of blood-thirstiness and in desperate times, we get even more salivated.

I do not know where exactly to come down. I certainly do not agree with using nuclear weapons, no matter how "sophisticated" they are. Bombs, maybe. I certainly would endorse a global effort at peaceful resolution. I also endorse a resolution that keeps nuclear weapons out of the hands of country that wishes to obliterate completely, another country.

So where do we go? What do we do? Bush Administration - you are getting yourself into a pickle with unforeseen consequences. You are not neutral and you are no world protector, so you are an instigator in some way, shape or form. I will pray for you. I will pray for peaceful resolutions, that are in the interests of the global population and I will pray for God's wisdom to truly encompass you all.

I will also be praying for the Iranian leadership, though I do, indeed, consider them enemies if they are such agitators, I am to pray for my enemies, and for them I shall.

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