Iran, Nukes, and Diplomacy

Things just keep getting better and better. Iran has proudly announced that it has successfully begun enriching uranium. Apparently they're still a long ways off from getting enough enrichment to make nuclear weapons, but they're obviously heading there, and it's only a matter of time.

It was OK when Russia had nukes in the Cold War, because they didn't want to use them on us because we'd just use ours on them. But Iran's president doesn't care about Iran's existence quite as much. He's the guy that's been calling the Holocaust a myth and declaring that Israel should be wiped off the map. What do you think he'll do when they get nukes ready?

So the US and other people who think they hold some world power have been telling Iran to stop. Iran says, yeah right. Because they know no army's going to come stop them. No country is going to instigate military action against them unless the US starts it, and they won't start it because the military's already stretched too thin in Iraq, and because the corrupted American media and politics won't let their own country take military force again because diplomacy is the peaceful way to resolve conflict. If only we had tried diplomacy with Iraq, we wouldn't have our present troubles, right?

Actually, we tried diplomacy with Iraq. Hussein didn't listen. We've been trying diplomacy with North Korea. They haven't stopped their nuclear program, either. And so now we're trying diplomacy with Iran. They're not going to stop, because if all we try is diplomacy then they can just ignore us and continue until they get some nukes and launch them on Israel.

If I didn't believe in God and his plan for Israel, their destruction would seem rather inevitable at this point. I'm not really sure what's going to happen with Iran, or if and when and how and who is going to stop them from continuing their nuclear program and launching them on Israel. Actually, it's not too far-fetched that Israel would launch nukes on Iran first. But then things would get really crazy...

Edmond the Hun

How to Solve the Problem of Illegal Immigration

Everybody's all hyped up about what to do about illegal immigration, since we got several million of them in our country and Congress is finally trying to pass laws to do something about it. But all of the solutions only deal with the result. Whether we try to build a wall of some sort, or deport them all, or make them legal---all of this only deals with the result: illegals in our country.

This is ignoring the cause, which won't change: Mexicans are poor and it's easier for them to support themselves by coming here and getting a job. No matter what we do to the illegals here, thousands more are still going to try to come in because they're poor.

This morning I was struck with an obvious solution: help Mexico's economy. I don't mean give them money; every government in the world is too corrupt for that to help anything. I mean, do things to help their economy. I haven't thought through all of this yet, but surely we can do some things to help their economy and country function in a way similar enough to ours that the people there can actually get a job and make a living. Then they won't have to come up here.

The problem is that this is currently impossible. Mexico doesn't want us to help them, because the ones who are in power are corrupt and have plenty of money and are content to let their economy be sustained by the millions of dollars flowing back across the border from relatives with jobs in the U.S. And don't even pretend that diplomacy would work. How well has that worked with Iraq, North Korea, and Iran in the last couple years?

Therefore, the only way to help their economy would be to force them, and that would mean at least some sort of military action. Not a war; some sort of governmental coup. But just as in Iraq, the people would welcome it with open arms, except we wouldn't have to worry about terrorists quite as much.

I don't really know what I'm saying here. But I think the key to stopping illegals from crossing the border is by dealing with the root of the problem and fixing Mexican poverty. However impossible that may be.

Edmond the Hun