Ulhas, Now I see that you simply haven't read what I have written.  You simply don't know what is relevant and what is not.  Read the original post and then my replies and come back to me.  It is completely irrelevant to whether we should stop U.S. nuclear terror policy that Iran is "isolated."  It is also irrelevant to what we should do about U.S. nuclear terror policy, that other nations might fall in line with the U.S.  Please think it through before you write back. Jerry <div>On 4/13/06, <a href="mailto:uvj@vsnl.com">uvj@vsnl.com</a> <<a href="mailto:uvj@vsnl.com">uvj@vsnl.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="direction: ltr;">Jerry Monaco wrote: On 4/13/06, <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:uvj@vsnl.com">uvj@vsnl.com</a> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:uvj@vsnl.com"> uvj@vsnl.com</a>> wrote: >>No. But Iran is almost completely isolated on this question. >Again irrelevant. </div><div style="direction: ltr;">Irrelevant to Iran and Iranians? It is easy (or less difficult) to attack nations that are isolated. Ulhas </div> <div>On 4/13/06, <a href="mailto:uvj@vsnl.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> uvj@vsnl.com</a> <<a href="mailto:uvj@vsnl.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">uvj@vsnl.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="direction: ltr;"> </div><div style="direction: ltr;">No. But Iran is almost completely isolated on this question. </div> </blockquote></div>Again irrelevant.  Does that mean that U.S. terrorism and threatened first use of nuclear weapons against Iran is justified because Iran is isolated?  Or is it that you are simply in favor of the patriotic double standards that judges the U.S. on a different scale than other states?  As far as Pakistan's nuclear policy, it is much more complicated than you state, and is also directed only and explicitly against India.  This is no excuse for our current allies own entry into the Nuclear Terror "community" but there is a huge difference between the U.S. and Pakistan. The U.S. maintains an official policy of threatened first use against everyone in the world and is capable of delivering on the threat.  And if you were a Pakistani citizen I would advise you to find someway to change the nuclear policies of Pakistan.... Since I am a U.S. citizen and the U.S. has used the nuclear terror threat more often than any other country I think it is minimum decency to point out the usual hypocrisy of U.S. worries over Iranian refinement of plutonium.  I am still wondering why you are so concerned with irrelevancies.  Jerry ___________________________________ <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk" target="_blank">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </a> ___________________________________ <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk" target="_blank">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </a> </blockquote></div> -- Jerry Monaco's Philosophy, Politics, Culture Weblog is Shandean Postscripts to Politics, Philosophy, and Culture <a href="http://monacojerry.livejournal.com/"> http://monacojerry.livejournal.com/</a> His fiction, poetry, weblog is Hopeful Monsters: Fiction, Poetry, Memories <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/jerrymonaco/">http://www.livejournal.com/users/jerrymonaco/ </a> Notes, Quotes, Images - From some of my reading and browsing <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/jerry_quotes/">http://www.livejournal.com/community/jerry_quotes/</a>