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Iran is defiantly seeking to acquire a nuclear arsenal which doesn’t sit to well with their stated contempt for the United States and Israel. Anybody of limited sanity would agree that a Nuclear armed Iran would create huge instability in the world and put millions of lives at risk. All true.

But is Iran wrong for wanting Nuclear Weapons? I’m not so sure. Here’s my analysis and as I oft times do, I’ll use a basic family type analogy of sorts to make my point. Here goes:

Picture yourself in a disparate neighborhood where some folks possess lots of things including but not limited to wealth and power. We’ll call these folks the rich folks. Other folks don’t have those things. We’ll call them the poor families. Now let’s say that the rich folks have a tool (i.e. a nuclear bomb), pick your tool, a high credit limit, a better vehicle, a nicer house, whatever. Now picture yourself as a poor family. Of course, you want the things the rich families possess. You want the tool that helps them get, be, and stay rich and powerful. You’re entitled right? Why not, all men are created equal. There’s no rule against wanting to be equal, right? It is supposedly a free neighborhood with each family having equal rights. So you, the poor family, start building the tool and what do you know, the rich families get together and confront you and say, “Hey poor boy! What do you think you are doing? You answer, “I’m trying to be like you, that’s what I’m doing.” The consortium of rich families tell you, “Oh no you don’t.” You respond with a “why not?” The rich consortium tells you that “you are not capable of handling the tool. You would misuse it. You cannot be trusted with the tool. You just can’t have the tool that would make you more like us.” Would you stand for that? Doubtful at best. I wouldn’t. I’d give the rich families the finger and keep building. (Iran has, I think only metaphorically, done this.) Who are they to tell me I can’t have something, something that I’m building with my own resources? See my point. Iran can’t be faulted for wanting a nuclear bomb, we have one they say, why shouldn’t they have one? A legitimate question.

Now, do you think the rich families could, through diplomacy and conversation, convince you that they are right, that you are not capable of having the tool that would make you more like them? Do you think the rich families could convince you to abandon your ambitions because you are just too irresponsible, too dangerous, to reckless? No way.

And yet, the Obama administration is attempting to do just that, to convince the poor family, Iran, that they are not worthy of possessing the tool, that they are just not as good and honorable as us Americans to entitle them to have a nuclear bomb. It will never happen. There is no way through negotiation, conversation, or diplomacy you’re ever going to convince somebody that they are simply not entitled to possess something that you have. Never. So, the Obama plan is ridiculous. It defies common sense, reason, and efficacy. It will not work. Don’t believe me, try convincing somebody that they are inferior to you and always will be. Good luck. You’ll fail.

Here’s the bigger problem. The Iranian leadership cannot be allowed to possess a nuclear bomb because they are in fact too dangerous, irresponsible and reckless. Really? Think about this. Have you ever heard the phrase, “If I were in his shoes?” Sure you have. It is an analytical technique of putting yourself in the other guys position (shoes). You are thinking that I am going to put us in Iran’s shoes but you’re wrong. Let’s put them in our shoes. Let’s give them our nuclear arsenal and our power just for the sake of analysis. We’d be dead in a minute. They would kill us at once, unless we bowed down to their religion, their tyranny, so long western world. That is why they cannot be trusted with nuclear bombs, and that is why the Obama Administration’s attempt at a diplomatic solution is both ridiculous and terrifying. Remember, radical Muslims are not afraid to die and radical Muslim leadership has no problem convincing their followers to die for their cause.

So, the Obama Administration is pursuing a dangerous course for two reasons. The first reason is that the course will fail. They will not be able to convince the Iranians that they are not worthy of being a nuclear armed nation just as you or I would fail at convincing a poor neighbor that they are not entitled to be and “have” like us. The second reason is that failure to keep Iran nuclear bombless will shift the world paradigm to a horrific state of imbalance. The Obama Administration’s policy is almost as reckless as the Iranian ambitions.

So keep up the futile work Mr. President. Risk the already precarious stability of the world. On the other hand, you did convince the folks of the United States that you were going to create “change” in Washington. Maybe you can sell snow to the Eskimos? But can you sell the Iranian’s on their inferiority? Highly doubtful Mr. President. Likely impossible.

Mr. President, think sanctions, extreme sanctions. And maybe consider giving a, what was your term, a “shout out,” to Mir Hossein Mousavi, the opposition leader in Iran. They could use it and we need it.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz