[Ben Ficklin]

"I can not understand why the public and the politicians can not face the facts"

Its not a problem of facing the facts, it a problem of defining the facts.

The actual fact is that the NPT allows Iran to enrich. And there may be some vagueness as to how much enrichment capacity NPT allows Iran to have.

It is not likely that Iran would consent to any agreement that restricts their enrichment capacity to less than what NPT allows.

So once Iran is allowed to enrich, then that has to be monitored, and Iran will allow that only after Israel consents to monitoring.

And it is not just what Israel or the NeoCon Republicans, or AIPAC thinks about this. What does P5 plus 1 minus 1 think. Has P5 plus 1 minus 1 given Iran 80% of what they want? What level of enrichment will P5 plus 1 minus 1 allow Iran. Will this issue split P5 plus 1 into two groups, perhaps with Russia, China, and Germany siding with Iran?

Then you have to wonder about Brazil, will they be allowed to enrich?

Taken to the conclusion, this is not about enrichment. This is about whether or not the US of A is the world hegemon, willing to militarily dominate the world. Do what we tell you to do or we will attack you, possibly with a nuke weapon.

[old curmudgeon]

So that reply answers all of the questions as to why we destabilize Libya and Iraq and try the same with Egypt, Syria and others and send known bad guys back home to fight our troops and those of our allies.

And that thing about shunning Margaret Thatcher.

Thanks for clearing all of that up.