@@ The vilification of Iran @@

The Courier-Journal
February 27, 2006

Opinion

'The vilification of Iran'

By Kate Cunningham

Louisville, Kentucky -- Preschoolers are taught not to exclude others (whom they
don't like) from their play group. Uncle Sam could learn a lesson here. In the
vilification of Iran that is now going on (recall the vilification of Iraq before we
started bombing), I see no reference to the fact that the nuclear weapons
non-proliferation treaty (NPT) consists of mutual promises: Non-nuclear nations agree
to forego developing nuclear weapons in exchange for the nuclear powers' agreement to
disarm their nukes.

The U.S. has a long way to go before all of our nukes are destroyed. As a charter
member of the nuclear weapons club, the U.S. can't say to Iran, "You can't play",
particularly when Pakistan, India, North Korea and Israel all have nukes.

In the current campaign against Iran, another parallel strikes me: We asked Saddam to
"prove a negative" when we insisted he prove that he did not have weapons of mass
destruction.

Now we are asking Iran to prove another negative: that it is not developing nukes.

Logic and common sense teach us that it is impossible to prove that something does
not exist. Tell Congress we don't want another logical fallacy pushing us into
bombing Iran.

Text of the treaty
http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/npttreaty.html

Public Editor Pam Platt: pplatt[AT]courier-journal.com
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060227/OPINION02/602270323/1018/OPINION


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