Nuclear China Good, Nuclear Iran Bad? (Paul Craig Roberts)

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Nuclear China Good, Nuclear Iran Bad?
by Paul Craig Roberts

What I have noticed about conservatives and Republicans is that they are no longer conservative and Republican. They believe in the efficacy of force. If we are losing in Iraq, it is because we are not using enough force. All we have to do to win in Iraq, they maintain, is to nuke the towel-heads. In case you have forgotten, Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, suggested that the United States nuke Mecca in retaliation for a terrorist attack.

Conservative Ann Coulter was more mild, no doubt due to her feminine nature. Her solution to Islam was to "invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

Determined to win, conservatives and Republicans are willing to nuke Iraq. Precisely what they would be winning, they cannot identify. But they believe that with sufficient force, America can teach those on the receiving end a lesson and make them do what the Bush administration wants. That is the extent of the brainpower that conservatives and Republicans bring to war and diplomacy.

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Why does Cheney want to sell nuclear reactors to China, but order the U.S. Strategic Command to prepare to nuke Iran's nuclear power capability, a capability that would allow Iran to sell more oil to an energy-starved world?

What's going on here?

http://antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=6921

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1. insanity and petrodollar vs. petroeuro garbage

c.f. the Iranian oil bourse.