Dear Friends,
It seems to me, if Muammar Gaddafi had pursued nuclear weapons he would be alive today. By their actions it would appear that our leaders want nuclear weapons to proliferate. What do I mean by that? Taken in the aggregate, the actions of world leaders create huge incentives for despots to get nuclear capability and mortal consequences if they don’t. You can argue that they are stupid and that’s why they create such pernicious incentives, but you cant argue the incentives are not there, are real and are powerful ones. So basically, either our leaders are so idiotic they can barely keep their hearts beating, else they are villains. Either scenario is chilling and will directly lead to human suffering on a massive scale.
North Korea was intransigent in their nuclear program. Clinton cut a deal with then despot Kim mentally ill to “prevent” them from getting nuclear weapons. The deal was cut and North Korea got everything they wanted from the deal. Such a deal it was. Even though the Clinton administration found out North Korea was cheating on the deal, in their cowardice, stupidity or villainy, they did nothing about it. They hid the fact, because if they allowed the people to know, they would have to do something, and doing something was off the table. The result was that North Korea became a nuclear power, and now has at least several deliverable nuclear warheads. Many say those warheads are electro magnetic pulse weapons, a doomsday weapon, one of which could eliminate the US.
Pakistan developed nuclear weapons as a result of India’s development of them. The nuclear program of Pakistan was aided by Abdul Qadeer Kahn’s stealing of uranium enrichment secrets from the Netherlands nuclear facility in which he had worked. By 1987 Pakistan detonated it’s first nuclear bomb. Abdul Qadeer Kahn, (A Q Kahn) then disseminated the stolen technology to every other Islamic state allowing them to nuke up too. Although such dissemination of nuclear technology was, and remains illegal, Pakistan considers A Q Kahn a national hero and protects him from arrest. Today Pakistan is on track to be number 3 in the world in deliverable nuclear weapons. The international community did nothing to prevent Pakistan acquiring nuclear weapons then and does nothing to limit the production of them today.
Muammar Gaddafi’s end of life experience was quiet impressive of the villainy, or stupidity, of Obama and European leaders. Gaddafi had given up his nuclear weapons program both publicly and credibly. He gave up the technology he had got from A Q Kahn and turned away from sponsoring terror. He certainly was an evil man, but he had set a new precedent by giving up his weapons of mass destruction, (WMD) program. Once he did, the world leaders ginned up a rebellion from Islamofascists in Benghazi against him. Then our leaders launched an air campaign to back up those fanatics that led to Gaddafi’s overthrow and humiliating death. The message was clear as it could be, our leaders told despots the world over, don’t give up your nuclear program else you will die the same as Gaddafi.
Iran watched all this unfold with baited breath. The end of the world fanatics that run Iran learned from the lessons of North Korea, that you can cut a deal with the US to get whatever you want, and you don’t have to honor your part, the deal is just to give you room to develop the technology and money to help, the leaders of the world will do nothing, even when they catch you cheating. They understood the lessons of Pakistan, the world will do nothing of consequence to stop you, even if you spread the technology around. They heard the message the world leaders sent when they killed Gaddafi, if you give up your nuclear program, the world’s leaders will come after you with a vengeance eventually killing you and your family, in the most humiliating way possible.
The result? Iran has cut a North Korea style deal with the US granting their nuclear program legitimacy, funding it to the tune of over 100 billion dollars and even letting them verify their own compliance! Iran is getting sanctions lifted, billions of dollars, a pledge from Obama to militarily protect them from our allies, legitimacy, the removing of a high ranking Irani terrorist from criminal charges for executing an American… and a guaranteed path to an A bomb in 10 years, if they actually comply with the deal, which they will not. Why should they? They self verify so no one can actually claim they are not in compliance. The US got nothing at all from the deal, Pastor Sayeed still rots in prison for being a Christian, Americans are still held hostage, there will be no verification, Iran will still be developing delivery technology, meanwhile Iran has ratcheted up it’s anti Israeli and anti American rhetoric. Yes… Gaddafi would be alive today if he hadn’t given up his WMD program. I predict Iran will be detonating it’s first nuclear bomb in less than 5 years, all because our leaders are either stupid or villains, lets pray it is not over Tel Aviv or an EMP over the US… that will come later.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
