Iran: The report that never was!

Iran seems to be more in the news these days and not for all the right reasons. The latest round in the Iran-U.S war of the meek seems to have ended in the favor of Iran. The leakage of the intelligence report telling one and all that Iran seems to have halted its nuclear weapons program way back in 2003 is not all that surprising to those who know the Iranians well. For those who do know the Iranians well, know that they have this inherent tactic for survival and that they will never take the foolhardy path of Saddam Hussein. They well know that to take that path will only lead to total and utter destruction on all sides and that it is indeed better to live and let live. On that thought, did you know that the ancient school of philosophy can be traced back to Iran and that it is in Iran that it had its roots and not in Greece as many think so!

This intelligence report has come at a time that the United states is going hammer and tongs at getting even more sanctions against Iran approved by the Security council. For one, this report does make things a little bit difficult for the United states to push for even more tougher sanctions. And anyone can see that to most Americans today, Iran and its hardliners still represent a threat not because of their religion or the fact that Iran thinks that Israel does not exist, but for the fact that many Americans were taken hostage during the Iranian revolution. What irks the Americans to this day is the fact that many Americans were taken hostage in the American embassy in Teheran. This baggage is one of the main reasons why America today finds it so difficult to even get along with Iran. The past is in the past and that is easier said than done, but it is high time that both these countries realise that there is nothing to be gained by holding onto past grudges. They should really take a page from the India-Pakistan book, the whole world knows the legendary rivalry between those two and today, they are not against each other, at least not the way that they were in the 1970's. They have matured and come a long way since then.

One thing is for sure, the other countries can breath a sigh of relief as they know that the United states would not be pressing that hard for sanctions this time around and that the Nuclear watchdog and mr.ElBaradei can go about their job and make sure that Iran has indeed complied with the IAEA rules and that Iran is only involved in fuel enrichment for peaceful purposes!

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Dynamite,Clinton, Crazy and a Hostage crisis?

The title of this post alone should make the situation clear to all of us, one may even think that the title is a dressing for some mundane story but the sad part or the funny part is that it is all too true and that all of it had really happened.
All of this went down in ROCHESTER, N.H. The hostage taker was a man called Leeland Eisenberg. This person had been in trouble before with the law and just three days ago his wife had filed for divorce and that seems to have been the very last straw for Leeland. Normally in order to deal with the emotional issues regarding divorce or any other family issues we would go to see a psychiatrist. Since the united states does provide some form of health care to all its citizens, Leeland could have taken that and avoided doing what he did.
But Leeland is a person who does things differently, he went ahead and strapped some road flares to himself,made it look like a dynamite,walked to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign offices, and decided to hold the people there hostage. He, I believe wanted to talk to Hilary about getting some form of medical help for himself. Talk about the crazy wanting to talk to another crazy about being crazy, That is not a pun because that is how it sounded to me. Anyway he later released all the hostages and surrendered himself. This is one campaign that Hilary is not going to forget anytime soon!

5 terrorists exchanged for a captive?

Most of the countries have the policy of not undertaking any negotiations of any sort with terrorists but Afghanistan seems to have forgotten that rule.rather they negotiated with the terrorists when the Taliban kidnapped the Korean christian group and it is rumored that the Taleban were paid off then.naturally the taleban being who they are naturally used that money to regrouped,get new arms and get a whole deal stronger.now they kidnapped a german contractor as well as his 4 Afghanistan helpers.on hearing about this,the Afghan government immediately started negotiating with the Taleban and gave in to the Taleban demands that about 5 of their comrades who were being held in Afghan prisons to be let off right away.the Afghan government complied and got the German freed.
This sets a rather bad precedent to the rest of the world and what is more such acts by any government only serves to strengthen the Taleban and in future,the Taleban will think that they have the upper hand.when will the Afghan government realise that they have committed a serious error in judgement and they need to be more careful in the future when dealing with such terrorists.

The hostage Seesaw!

Well we are all pleased that the hostage cirsis vis-a-vis Iran is finally over.now that the hostages were released the Defense department had initialy given them the goahead to the marines to publish thier stories and now itall of asudden seemed to hav e akneejerk reaction and has withdrawn that permission.
It is all so very silly.We all can take it as given that in any hostage crisis there is bound toi be trauma and that the situation is not being helped in any way by the seesaw descisions that the MOD is having.
That apart,while you are a hostage,say you were given some gifts by your captors and you say that it is so very decent of them to do so in national television and then once you are released,on getting back to your native place,you immediately badmouth the people and the gifts they had given,calling them as junk,that is a behaviour that is not right nor decent.
I believe that one should not look a gift horse in the mouth and one should be glad that one is getting something at all.that said i agree that one may have hard feelings towards ones captors but that apart,this behaviour of the marines in praising a gift and then bad mouthing it as junk later is not becoming of them.thats my 2 cents.

A shot for peace!

Well with the recent Iran imbroligo,it seems that peace fianllyhad a say.but i do wish that the Iranians had choosen some other way than to try and hold hostage all those sailors.well it has already complicated an already bad situation in ways that no one had anticipated!
will Pax fall,it onlyt remains to be seen!