On January 28 a team of UN nuclear agents will make their way over to Tehran, in order to talk to the Iranians because now saying they are "ready after years of refusal to discuss allegations that it was involved in secret nuclear weapons work”. For over three years they have blocked the International Atomic Energy Agency from following up the US and intelligence sources on how Tehran is converting Iranian work on nuclear arms. However as Tehran talks to the UN, Iran is staying clear and denying such allocation yet if they do choose to take part in this meeting this will create a hopefully future in working together in the future.
With America pulling out of the Middle East, slowly but surely, allegations of US officials killing off Iranian nuclear experts, "There is firm evidence that certain foreign quarters are behind such assassinations. As has been claimed by these circles, such terrorist acts have been carried out as part of the efforts to disrupt Iran's peaceful nuclear program, under the false assumption that diplomacy alone would not be enough for that purpose”. Hilary Clinton, Sec of State has denied such comments. The US and other allies are urging Iran to stop their uranium enrichment programs that lead to the key ingredient to a nuclear warhead.
Do we need to keep our guard up?
How should we go about preventing a nuclear fall out with other nations holding or possibly building these destructive weapons?
For more information please see:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/01/12/iran-says-ready-to-discuss-nuclear-work-ahead-un-visit/
14 comments:
The United States involvement in the Middle East has been prolonged far too much. If there is still the threat of nuclear weapons being manufactured there, than the U.S. Government needs to take a better look at itself, and actually figure out a reasonable way to settle this mess. If there isn't the threat, then why the hell are we still over there? How many more innocent lives, especially the ones of our own men, need to be taken in order for the U.S. to feel good enough about itself to halt the sending of troops, as well as the deliberate killing of innocent lives that is going on? If a certain country has the resources and education to build nuclear weapons than we should try and be on good terms with them and not try and start wars in their homelands. If they have the idea to start building nuclear weapons, nothing the US does is going to stop them, therefore, it is best for us to stay on good terms with as many countries as possible so as to prevent getting a nuclear attack on our own country. I feel like in today's society, having our guard up is necessary, but should not be over thought and analyzed. Anything can happen at any moment, so yes, we need to have our guard up, but we also can't dwell on what ifs and scare every citizen of our nation.
Like Andi, i believe the US' involvement definitely has been prolonged. However, I do believe we need to keep our guard up just in case. I do not think that the US can 100% trust anyone because any country is likely to revolt or become unstable. Due to the fact that the Middle East has definitely proved to be lacking in stability, I think it is our job to be extra cautious, yet not controlling at this point. Nuclear weapons and warfare is extremely dangerous and it is fishy that Iran is increasing their uranium enrichment by 20%. That gives this country more reasons to be extra careful and it is completely reasonable to ask them to cut back on their uranium enrichment. Even though Tehran has agreed to talk, I do not think that will say anything other than denying their involvement with any harmful nuclear weaponry or anything of that sort. I do not believe we can necessarily control a nuclear fallout but we can make the effort to monitor nuclear activity and also just be on good terms with other countries. If such evidence is proven to be true about the creation of these destructive devices, then I have no doubt that we should intervene. After all, the United States is viewed and one of the policing countries.
With regards to the United States involvement in the Middle East, I agree with Maggie. It is true that nuclear weapons are a threat in the Middle East right now but it is not the United States job to fix that. The United States have already spent far too much time over there and I think that it would do more harm than good to go back over there. The wisest plan to keep our country safe is to let the United Nations take care of this problem. I feel like if the United States yet again became involved in the Middle East nothing would be solved. The amount of nuclear weapon production wouldn’t go down and the amount of American deaths would go up. There is not much the United States can do to change what has already been done. I’m not saying that the United States should just sit around and do nothing; we should definitely have our guard up. The production of nuclear weapons is a huge threat to us and we need to look out for these possible threats. We can do this by bumping up our security, but I don’t think that going back over there will do us any good.
I agree 100% with Andi and Katie. Clearly we are over there for a reason and trying to resolve the problems but it is not going to be an easy or quick problem to fix in any means. But we definitely need to keep our guard up but that should be the case with any country and not just with the middle east. Yes, we may have alliances with several countries, but at any moment they could turn on us and cause more problems than we can handle right now. It is best for our country and people to keep our guard up and focus on the current issues that need to be resolved as soon as possible. Like Maggie said, there is not much we can do to prevent other countries from nuclear devices, so the only thing we can do is do our best as a nation to keep the peace with everyone that is willing to make amends.
I agree with Andi in that the U.S should not be involved with the nuclear situation in the Middle East. The 8 years that our troops were in Iraq caused Americans distress and struggle. If we get involved again in the Middle East, it will probably be drawn out for an unnecessary period of time, which is the last thing that our country wants or needs. There is no way that the U.S can prevent other countries from building destructive weapons. If the country has those resources and advances, they are going to make the weapons no matter what anyone else says. If the tables were turned, would the U.S listen to Iran if they told us to stop the manufacture of nuclear weapons? No, because having nuclear weapons is a defense mechanism in case anything, like surprise attacks or tragedies, ever happened.These weapons would be beneficial to the U.S., and that's what matters. That being said, the U.S needs to make peace with foreign countries who are possibly making these destructive weapons. That way, it lowers our chances of being attacked. However, we should still keep our guard up. In making peace with other nations, we cannot let ourselves be fooled either. Our country just needs to come to friendly terms with foreign countries, while keeping the nation safe and secure.
I do not think that the United States should have involvement with the Middle East and the nuclear situation. I do believe that it is a serious threat; however it is best we not get involved. Like it has already been said, our efforts could basically just end up in “costly war killing lives”. No matter how much the U.S. can really do, people don’t like when others get involved in their business and our influence cannot really stop what is going on. I agree that we need to make peace with other countries but continue to always keep our guard up. In life you can never trust anyone or anything so it is important that the United States always is on their toes and watching out for attacks. I also believe that this is an issue for the UN and the U.S. should only try to work with and through them. We cannot for sure prevent a nuclear fallout because everything in life is unpredictable and all we can try to do is be on good terms with the other countries, show them that we support and will help the UN, and continue to work on achieving better national security.
I believe that the situation in the Middle East requires a hands-off attitude, at least officially. This is a very tricky diplomatic situation and there are many ways that it can go wrong for America. First and foremost, it will be hard diplomatically to deny one country the power that we have held for several decades. For us to enter a boycott alone would, in my opinion, make the United States seem power-hungry. That does not mean that nuclear weapons go unchecked, it just means that the United States cannot be the only one involved. If the United Nation and other international conventions actively regulate the nuclear situation, I think that is the right and advisable path. However, I think that it would be wise for the United States to keep looking over their shoulder and to start and looking for ways to protect our homeland, not attacking other countries. I think that military technology should focus on finding a way to protect our country from nuclear weapons. With our country (and all other countries) becoming more and more vulnerable to nuclear weapons, and more and more countries making them, it becomes increasingly apparent that the MAD (mutually assured destruction) technique used in the 1960s will not work today. This is especially true in the Middle East where it is acceptable to kill yourself, so long as you take as many of your enemies along with you as you can. The PREVENTION of a nuclear attack is not only advisable, but I think that it is absolutely NECESSARY in today's environment
I think that America’s involvement with the nuclear situation over in the Middle East is important in protecting the United States from attack, and I think that some involvement is necessary because I do not think that a nation will choose not to produce nuclear weapons simply because they were told not to. We should not leave nations who may be producing nuclear weapons unsupervised. I also think that a necessary precaution against nuclear attack is to stay on good terms with all nations by maintaining peaceful relationships. In my opinion, a balance between supervision and keeping peace so that nations will not have a motive to attack is the key to preventing a nuclear attack. Although a country may deny that they are producing nuclear arms, I think that we need to keep our guard up because just like people, nations may not always be honest and could backstab our country at any moment. To prevent a nuclear fallout with other nations holding or possibly building these destructive weapons our country should be sure to keep the peace. This can be done by being cautious about not offending other countries and not trying to tell other nations what to do. I think that not picking any fights and trying to keep the peace is the main strategy our country should follow regarding the issue of nuclear warfare.
I am somewhat conflicted on this issue. On one side, I think that the USA has no responsibility to get involved because we have no proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. However, I also think that we should get involved now to prevent the possibility of the threat of nuclear war (since Iran is in the Middle East and is allied with other Islamic countries like Pakistan, there could be conflicts with India). However, this could eventually escalate into worldwide nuclear war. We can't tell Iran not to develop nuclear weapons because we have nuclear weapons of our own. We can't apply a double standard to other nations while letting ourselves and nations like Russia have huge nuclear programs. However if Iran does not comply with the IAEA and allow for monitoring (which they haven't so far), their nuclear program does need to be checked and monitored somehow. We currently have sanctions on them I think but it's obviously not working, meaning that something in our policy toward Iran needs to change. We need to keep our guard up because the Middle East is one of the most rapidly changing regions of the world. Iran is a rapidly growing power there and we need to take them seriously. However, rather than reverting back to imperial ways of mandating another country's actions, we should first try for diplomacy and come to agreements without any double standards as to what countries can have nuclear power. I think that all nations should come to an agreement in the UN stating that they will begin to reduce their nuclear stockpile by increments over a certain period of time. I think we should suggest trade deals or sanctions or other incentives to encourage nations such as Iran and North Korea to disarm.
I feel very much distraught on this issue. I feel that our nation would be complete hypocrites to tell Iran to not create nuclear weaponry when we have our own nuclear plants here in The States. And what if we do boycott them creating the nuclear weapons? They could still create them and just end up angry at us for being hypocrites and trying to stop them. And do we really want a country with that kind of weaponry angry at us? Sure if a true threat comes we could just blow them up with our weapons, but that just would begin a war which we all know would end up wiping out the entire world.
Basically I think that we need to just stay out of it. Definitely we should not encourage such a feat but we also should not flat out refuse it. I think that if we stay out of that business in Iran then we would be making the smartest and most peaceful decision. Even though that keeps the current issue at bay, we should still always keep our guard up in case of threats. Because again, one little threat could spell out war, destruction, and eventually nothingness. I think that the world just needs to stay calm and try to solve their issues in other ways besides nuclear weaponry usage. Only then can we be most safe and at peace.
I think that it is a necessity that the United States should be involved in the nuclear situation in the Middle East. For the safety of the American people and our country the American government needs to evaluate the degree in which we are involved in foreign issues, especially those involving nuclear weapons. I think the Middle East and United States has the resources and capability of ironing out this mess. I think that there will always be a degree to which we keep a guard up for the safety of citizens. At the same time I think there needs to be a level of trust and agreement with the other nations to secure peace. History shows us that through alliances, treaties, and agreements have been able to pull nations through their differences in order to prevent catastrophic disaster. I do think that it would be to the United States best advantage if an agreement were made through the United Nations which has experience with these sorts of deals. There needs to be knowledge between the two nations regarding their supply of nuclear weapons, their knowledge and education of the subject matter, and their intents on how they will use the weapons. With open communications I think a burden will be lifted from the American government's shoulders.
I really don't like how the United States always tries to get involved with everyone else's business. I feel like we think that we are so superior to every other country and that they all desperately need our help and I think that we can be pretty annoying about everything. We're show offs and I really don't like it. Nuclear warfare is definitely a huge threat and I agree with all of the girls that said that they think the United Nations should be in charge of monitoring nuclear warfare and not the United States. I Strongly agree with Patricia in that I think that being involved with this can go wrong very quickly. I think that we need to keep our distance from the situation. That being said, I definitely think that we need to keep our guard up. Unfortunately, you never know what could happen and the threat of being attacked by another country is there so I think that we need to keep up with all I the precautions we have to protect ourselves. Basically, I think that the United Nations needs to take this issue into their own hands ad that we need to stop trying to control everything ourselves because that can lead to much bigger problems.
First of all, the United States cannot not stop any nation from making nuclear weapons. We cannot and should not as a country try to restrict other countries from making them when we have huge amount of nuclear weapons ourselves. That being said, if a country were to not follow standard regulations when it comes to making nuclear weapons, they should definitely be monitored in some way. I believe it was Teddy Roosevelt who said that the Unite States was the police of the world. I agree one hundred percent with that statement. I think should the nuclear situation in the Middle East begin to get out of hand, the United States should intervene in a effective way that will hopefully achieve their goal. The idea of nuclear warfare stemming out of the Middle East is a terrifying idea because that area is so unstable. I wonder if our leaving Iraq and the rest of the Middle East will affect how this situation goes. I fear without our presence the situation will quickly get out of hand and we could potentially find ourselves in the middle of a nuclear war. The United States should definitely keep their guard up since the Middle East has been a threat to us for well over a decade. In all reality, the United States should never put its guard down. We must always be on the defensive in order to ensure safety for our citizens. In order to prevent a nuclear fallout, we should go about handling the issue very diplomatically because using force would cause many problems. I think that the nuclear situation in the Middle East should be monitored, but intervention must be planned carefully and executed properly.
I think the United States involvement in the Middle East has taken too long already. The United States should be aware of the problem and should remain prepared incase the nuclear weapons pose a threat to the country. The United States cannot be apart of every crisis in the Middle East. We spent to long in the Middle East and going back after we were able to get people out of Iraq would be too hard for the people who just got a loved one back. Abviously the nuclear weapons is a huge threat over there, but I think the United States needs to consider the well being of the country first.
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