[MD] Hippies

[Ant McWatt]

Platt asked February 6th 2006:

>Do you think Western Europe, the U.S., China and Russia should allow Iran 
>to
>build atomic bombs?. If diplomacy and sanctions fail, would you object to
>military action?

Platt,

Unfortunately, I think you're about forty years too late to be concerned 
about Iran's nuclear program/me.

As the Professor & Chairman of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the 
University of Southern California in Los Angeles notes:

"History shows that the US and her allies were in fact the driving force 
behind the birth of Iran's nuclear program in the late 1960s and early 
1970s."

http://www.payvand.com/news/03/oct/1015.html

Unfortunately, if the US and her allies (such as the UK) had been 
concentrating on promoting more love-ins and Woodstocks in the late 1960s 
and early 1970s and putting half the resources they spent on arms then on 
eco-technology (rather than instigating nuclear programmes in Middle-Eastern 
countries) then possibly world security and the general quality of life 
would be that much better now.

Anyway, no doubt you were happily voting for "Tricky Dicky" and cursing 
those dirty drug taking hippies during this time?

As I suggested before, look at Northrop.  Though his analysis is not going 
to be absolutely up-to-date, at least it will be outside this 
liberal-conservative straightjacket which seems to be surrounding the US 
media at this time.

Best wishes,

Anthony.


"Was it not our own Emerson who said, 'What you do speaks so loud I cannot 
hear what you say.'  If our deeds do not correspond to our words, the 
peoples of the Middle East and Asia will not hear what we say.  This means 
that if our stand for their cultural resurgence is to be heard by them, we 
must align ourselves against imperialism everywhere."

(Northrop, "The Taming of the Nations", 1952, p.182)

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