A negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis is within reach

Of course, who knows if the Bushites are interested in a solution. Bush doesn't seem to have a clue what to do about anything if it doesnm't involve sending in the military.

Even an outbreak of the Avian Flu requires military quarantine, according to the Bush plan for a Pandemic.

Let's face it, this is a black or white, all or nothing administration.

Wasn't it Lao Tsu who said if you say "this or that, you have missed the truth?"

This administration is very much into false choices.


Guardian Unlimited Comment is free A negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis is within reach:

The US must take three basic steps to defuse this confrontation. The consequences of not doing so could be grim. (will be grim)

The urgency of halting the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and moving toward their elimination, could hardly be greater. Failure to do so is almost certain to lead to grim consequences, even the end of biology's only experiment with higher intelligence. As threatening as the crisis is, the means exist to defuse it.

A near-meltdown seems to be imminent over Iran and its nuclear programmes. Before 1979, when the Shah was in power, Washington strongly supported these programmes. Today the standard claim is that Iran has no need for nuclear power, and therefore must be pursuing a secret weapons programme. 'For a major oil producer such as Iran, nuclear energy is a wasteful use of resources,' Henry Kissinger wrote in the Washington Post last year."

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