Iran and the China syndrome
By donar | Related entries in Cartoons, China, Iran, Nuclear, Political GraffitiNY Times link…
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There’s a difference between sensationalism and lying…and the above is a lie. The US has known that Iran had a second “secret” nuclear plant since at least 2002-2003.
Here’s more from The Policy Page:
The truth is that Iran only decided to reveal the existence of the uranium enrichment operation to the International Atomic Energy Agency [...]
Alan wrote yesterday about things heating up with North Korea, and nownuclear tensions are growing on the high seas…
The U.S. military is preparing for a possible intercept of a North Korean flagged ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned.
The USS John [...]
Looks like last week’s nuclear test angered a key ally too.
From Bloomberg:
China suspended government exchanges with North Korea after Kim Jong-Il’s regime last week tested a nuclear device and fired short-range missiles, Yonhap News said.
China has halted plans to send officials to North Korea and won’t accept visits from Kim’s government either, the Korean- language [...]
Well, North Korea has the world’s attention. Exploding a nuclear bomb and launching missile tests will do that. All that’s left now is for the world to respond.
North Korea has long been a foreign policy conundrum, frustrating a long line of U.S. presidents who’ve attempted to stop the so-called hermit nation from threatening its neighbors. [...]
Before anyone jumps up and declares this cartoon tasteless, I do not condone genocide. I just want to imply in a satirical way that these two regimes are shooting each other in the foot with their nuclear tests. For now it may seem that they both have a long while to go before developing a [...]
Some good news already from G20:
After a meeting between the two men in London, on the eve of the G20 summit, President Obama also accepted an invitation to fly to Moscow in July, by which time both sides hope negotiators from both countries will have worked out an arms control deal to replace the Strategic [...]
Hahaha, well Mitt…you might want to tell Dick Lugar that.
I swear, the more Mitt talks, the less credible he seems. I don’t know how he does it.
We’re spending our money to help them build nuclear energy plants?
Why?
Yes, I realize they’re a friend, but let’s not forget that Saudi Arabia is not a democracy and giving them nuclear energy, when they could be one of the biggest users of solar energy with as much sun as they get, doesn’t make really make [...]