Is it too late to ask why Iran should not be allowed to waste its hard-earned savings developing its own nuclear weapons without having them destroyed in advance, as Nick Hopkins reports in today’s Guardian?
No, it isn’t too late. As with the Greek debts, it’s never too late for a people to exert themselves in their own perceived interests – especially ones with such ancient and distinguished pedigrees as Greece and Iran, formerly Persia, which fought each other to the death so long ago.
The question in both cases is this: is it a good idea and, if so, for whom? As Plato remarked in the good old days, there is a difference between what is good for the state and what pleases the people.
Source: Energy Tribune
