Monday, December 10, 2007
Iran - What gives?
I have to wonder, "Where are our spys these days?".
At face value, our intelligence services seem to leave a lot to be desired.
That being said, I really believe that there are well-calculated reasons for everything they say. After all, they wouldn't be what they are if they told everyone what they know and do...
At face value, our intelligence services seem to leave a lot to be desired.
That being said, I really believe that there are well-calculated reasons for everything they say. After all, they wouldn't be what they are if they told everyone what they know and do...
The following comes from a Wall Street Journal opinion column:
"In any case, the real issue is not Iran's nuclear weapons program, but its nuclear program, period. As the NIE acknowledges, Iran continues to enrich uranium on an industrial scale--that is, build the capability to make the fuel for a potential bomb. And it is doing so in open defiance of binding U.N. resolutions. No less a source than the IAEA recently confirmed that Iran already has blueprints to cast uranium in the shape of an atomic bomb core. The U.S. also knows that Iran has extensive technical information on how to fit a warhead atop a ballistic missile. And there is considerable evidence that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps has been developing the detonation devices needed to set off a nuclear explosion at the weapons testing facility in Parchin. Even assuming that Iran is not seeking a bomb right now, it is hardly reassuring that they are developing technologies that could bring them within a screw's twist of one."
