sounds like a success, yes?
nope.
guess who's got a problem with the offer?
yep. it's us. and what's the problem? we are hesitant to talk with them because they did not include any plans to reform and disarm their nuclear program.
what's my problem with our problem?
YES THEY DID, YOU MORONS!!
anyone who says that iran didn't explain their desire to break down their nuclear program didn't read the letter. more specifically, they did not read sections 2.5 (page4) and 2.6 (page5), in which iran offers a brief look at the intention of their nuclear program (use of clean nuclear energy in agriculture, industry and medicine and power generation), and then claims to be all for a world wide disarmament effort.
ok, so some people are going to say that we can't trust iran to hold these statements to the gauntlet of truth in action, but the point here is that they made the claims in the first place and offered them as an olive branch. why shouldn't we trust them? why should this letter be considered bullshit until proven genuine, and then let this very attitude be an insurmountable obstacle toward their chance to prove their statements true at all?
at this point if we do not accept this letter, and talk with iran, it is us who are being the big bad world power with nuclear arms and an iron clad stubbornness toward the foreign policies of other nations.
if we do not sit down with iran, because we are falsely accusing them of resisting negotiations on certain key points, then we might as well just go back to combing the desert for WMDs.
let us not forget that it is in fact us, the US, who has the most impressive and potentially devastating nuclear weapons cache. it is us who has never once offered to disarm ourselves, and it is us, and us alone, who has used those weapons against other human beings in an act of war.
i find it appalling, simply disgusting, that we insist that everyone else disarm themselves, but we do not disarm ourselves. furthermore, we are now lying about proposed disarmament negotiations made by other governments, and for what? because if we don't we might have to admit that there are other, more important bad guys to worry about? bad guys like north korea, who seem to have castrated us with nothing more than a few failed mid-range missile tests? bad guys like china, who have neutralized our concerns not only for a clean environment, but for a free tibet by making cheap toys and shoes for us by abusing their own workforce? bad guys like israel, who refuse to allow a free and independent palestine for seemingly no reason, simply because the nation of israel was partly our doing in the first place? bad guys like the american business class who steal from and lie to their own countrymen? who contract wars because otherwise there isn't much money in making SUVs that can withstand bazooka blasts, and missiles that can guide themselves across oceans and hit a target as small as an iraqi street sign, then proceed to blow up the hospital, school, and every residential home within a square mile? who put people out of their homes, and destroy their lives just to make a fraction of a penny in interest on a line of credit, a mortgage, or a loan? who outsource jobs to countries with no labor laws or regulations to save a penny per unit on a pair of shoes, or a transformer action figure? who let people die, indiscriminately to squeeze one more dollar out of them, under the guise of liability release due to preexisting conditions?
we don't have to immediately accept whatever iran sets forth in these talks, if we even accept anything at all. we don't have to make iran the hero, and we don't have to make ourselves the villain.
but if we don't accept their offer to sit down and talk this out, simply because of lies that we are spreading, then it is too late.
we have already made ourselves the villain.
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