A common sense solution: avoiding war with Iran

What I'm about to suggest has no doubt been said many times before, so logical and exact that all but a politician would understand. The key to avoiding war with Iran does not lie in the disarmament of their nuclear program. It begins with the disarmament of all nuclear stockpiles and the creation of a consistent set of rules for all nations to operate equally by. It is irrational and self centered to expect developing nations to heed to a set of rules that the already dominate ruling nations will not follow themselves, which allow them to push a developing nation like Iran around with the threat of a nuclear attack should they refuse a command. The proliferation of nuclear development has been solely in response to the threat that our country poses to the rest of the world, in particular to the countries who do not wish to accept our burdening economic policies and materialistic values. Like it or not, it is not our right to dictate the ways that other countries rule themselves by, and this is exactly what we are threatening Iran with.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has publicly stated that Iran will cease with their nuclear program once dominate powers like the United States cease with theirs. At the moment there is only proof that Iran is using its Nuclear program for the creation of nuclear power to fill energy needs. It would be fair to allow them the same advantages of nuclear power we allow ourselves, and quite unfair to expect them to operate under a differing set of standards and freedoms that intentionally restrain development.

Some would argue the threat of a nuclear attack a country like Iran would pose, should they ever come in possession of nuclear weapons, is reason enough to attack them before being attacked. This is the same mentality that led us into Iraq with the phantom weapons of mass destruction, and the exact argument that our leaders in Washington are currently making for war with Iran. I say this is unfathomably morbid, that in this day and age a country supposedly as civilized as our own operates in such a barbaric, murderous, self righteous fashion. I'm not for any country possessing nuclear warfare technology, in particular my own. History records that it is our country that is the only one ever to use a nuclear bomb in wartime, and two for that matter in our darkest defining moment killing millions of innocent Japanese civilians. And it is our country who is the aggressor of the early 21st century who continues to terrorize the middle east both militarily and economically, fully capable of doing something real stupid. It is high time we hold our leaders accountable for their undemocratic international practices and recognize how nonsensical the case being made for war with Iran is. Everything that matters today will cease to matter the moment the next world war begins, which is exactly what would come about should we preemptively strike Iran. Russia has already vowed that an attack on Iran would be the same as an attack on Russia, and you can bet that Venezuela and Cuba would join in as well, for good reason too, right in our own backyard. There would be others as well, and massive world wide destruction and death, likely permanently radiating large areas of precious, scarce land beyond habitability. It would be only a matter of time before the fighting spread to our land. We need top become responsible and forward thinking in our policies. There is only one answer: complete global nuclear disarmament. But that wouldn't be nearly as profitable.