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Le Jornada, Mexico

U.S. Nuclear Double Standards Must End

 

"There is no conclusive proof that by enriching uranium for the development of weapons of mass destruction, Iran and North Korea did anything different than governments that built nuclear arsenals with the implicit consent of the U.S. and Western Europe, such as India, Israel and Pakistan."

 

EDITORIAL

 

Translated By Florizul Acosta-Perez

 

April 7. 2010

 

Mexico - La Jornada - Original Article (Spanish)

President Obama and Russian President Medvedev after signing START - the new U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, in Prague. But is Washington's policy toward Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs hypocrytical?

 

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On the eve of the Prague meeting between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U. S. President Barack Obama, during which they will conclude a new agreement to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed in 1991, the U.S. government presented its Nuclear Posture Review, a document that sets out guidelines to follow for the use of its nuclear arsenal. In this document, Washington agrees not to manufacture new warheads and not to use them against non-nuclear states which don't possess them and that respect the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty [START]. These are circumstance that exclude, according to the government of our neighboring country, Iran and North Korea.

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The document contains positive elements, such as a willingness on the part of government in Washington to lead by example when it comes to dismantling existing nuclear arsenals. It cannot be overlooked, however, that such pronouncements are consistent with the inability or unwillingness of the Obama government to reverse some of the belligerent and hostile impulses characterized by his predecessor. Such impulses have spurred the arms race, as evidenced by his aspiration to install an anti-missile shield in Romania and Bulgaria similar to the one Obama ruled out for the Czech Republic and Poland. Significant in this respect was the response given yesterday by Moscow, whose ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, asked the United Stated to provide more details on its new nuclear policy. A day earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointed out that his country has the right to withdraw from START if the quantitative and qualitative increase in U.S. strategic missile defense significantly diminishes the effectiveness of Russian strategic nuclear forces.

 

Moreover, it's noteworthy that the document states a clear warning to the regimes of Iran and North Korea - although there is no conclusive proof that by enriching uranium for the development of weapons of mass destruction, they did anything different than governments that built nuclear arsenals with the implicit consent of the United States and Western Europe, such as India, Israel and Pakistan. The tolerance with which Washington and its allies have treated the weapons projects of these three nations has led to a process of proliferation that has multiplied global tension and transformed any condemnation of Korea and Iran into an act of double standards.    

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SEE ALSO ON THIS:

Kommersant, Russia: Russia and America Call for 'Universal Nuclear Disarmament'

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: START Will Do Nothing to Prevent the Inevitable Blast

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Quietly, Successfully, U.S. Tightens Noose Around Tehran

Le Figaro, France: For U.S. and China, the A-Bomb to Diffuse is Economic

Le Figaro, France: East Europeans Shudder at Better U.S.-Russia Ties

Die Welt, Germany: Obama's Nuclear Policy is a 'Mini Revolution'

Le Figaro, France: Obama's Anti-Nuclear Crusade Will Mark His Presidency  

Vedomosti, Russia: Soviet Theft of American Nuclear Secrets Was Fully Justified

 

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Moreover, it must be emphasized that Pyongyang's nuclear development program and the one Washington systematically charges Teheran with pursuing, have inescapably emerged as a result of the hostile behavior of the United States against nations it considers enemies, and the implementation by governments of that country of the doctrine of preventive war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Paradoxically, it is now obvious that the U.S. invasion of Iraqi territory was not due to possession by the Saddam Hussein regime of weapons of mass destruction - but to a lack of them. Under the circumstances, it is at least logical to assume that the Iraqi and North Korean authorities have at least considered acquiring nuclear arsenals as a way of preventing, as far as possible, a U.S. military aggression.

 

With these considerations in mind, the commitment expressed yesterday by the United States, which in principle constitutes clear and healthy progress, must be accompanied by an end to the inconsistency, factionalism and double standards with which the superpower usually conducts itself when it comes to nuclear disarmament.    

 

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[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US April 13, 3:39am]

 







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