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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Monday, August 23, 2004 ::

Gathering Storm

Lines are being drawn in the sand over Iraq's nuclear program:

"That moment of decision, when the West either accepts the inevitability of a nuclear-armed Iran or launches a military strike to pre-empt it, is looming ominously closer. And such an attack, while rallying Iranian opinion behind the ayatollahs, is unlikely to do more than buy a few years of delay. Already, anxious officials in London, Berlin and Paris are trying to assess how long it will be before the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran inspires Turkey, Kazakhstan or even Saudi Arabia to follow suit.

It's interesting, the "anxious officials" in Europe seem to be doing little beyond hand-wringing over the possibility of nuclearized shi'itism on their back doorstep while simutaneously doing everything in their power to undermine Bush's attempt to democratize Iraq. Should the middle-east become nuclearized, they'll pray for good old days of a singular, democratic/capitalistic, American hegemony.

Update: Kerry to Iran: I will "provide you the fuel that you need if Russia fails to provide it." (?!)

Thought I remembered something about this but it took me a minute to find it--yikes!

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