Nuclear Iran

First, I don't really know what to say about whether or not a Nuclear Iran is a good or bad thing for "american interests". Mostly because I don't know what the hell all the knee jerk washington types mean by that. Do they mean that if Iran is nuclear we won't be able to invade Iran sometime later without running the risk of a nuclear strike? Do they mean that a Nuclear Iran will be a more aggressive nation in the future, less susceptible to American pressure? Either way, talk about what is in or not in our interests seems somewhat silly on this point. I can develop this more later, which means I probably won't cause I will forget about it.

What I really wanted to talk about today is the fact that Israel is apparently preparing for some type of military action against Iran's nuke program. Not being a smart man on one of the coasts, or more specifically the only one that matters for U.S. foreign policy, the East Coast, I fail to see how this type of action by Israel, if it happens or it is threatened, is not a "threat to international peace and security", falling within the definition of types or problems the U.N. Security Council is supposed to deal with. There will probably be a lot of talk about the supposed failure of the U.N. in addressing the "problem" of Iran's nuke program. However, all that talk will be wrong headed because the U.N. hasn't necessarily failed simply because it did not reach a solution to the "problem". Just because some U.N. members, namely, Russia and China, have refused to allow the Security Council to address the "problem" doesn't mean the U.N. has failed. Analoguously the U.S. Senate doesn't "fail" every time a bill gets filibustered by political parties who disagree with the bill. My point would be that "failure" of the U.N. is a political failure on the part of the participants in the Security Council, NOT a failure of the institution itself. The inability of the members of the Security Council to address the problem together means those members should find ways to work together better, not that the institution should be scrapped. Americans all too often, and by americans I mean the political leadership and cognizenti in Washington and New York, believe that anytime the U.N. doesn't do exactly what we want it has "failed". That thinking is childish and moronic. Do Mom and Dad "fail" their children every time Mom and Dad refuse to let the children sit around eating cookies and McDonalds all day while the kids watch T.V. unsupervised?

Grow up America, and again when I say "america" I mean the Coastal Foreign Policy Elite.