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Satyagraha

Grasp this truth. Most of your life will be spent on the edge of your chair, waiting for the next Nuke to go off.

I grew up thinking that in school. Any day can be the last day. The teachers used that to program the examined life. They wanted it to be immediate, not some distant moral question about thievery or the right to own property. Right now, are you ready to meet your Goddess?

If you know what that feels like, let me ask you this. Does it feel right now like a Nuke could go off? Or is it that we’re on the edge of a revolution?

The beauty of truth is that it washes through consciousness like a fresh cleansing breeze, lifting a diaphanous veil. Everything is as before, since the veil is translucent, but the view now is crisp and clear.

No, I don’t want to live with a Nuke, not mine, not yours, not anybodies.

Isn’t that the point of the NPT? To get rid of the Nukes?

The Israelis are doing to themselves what they hated the Nazis for doing. The Nazis isolated them behind barbed wire and concrete walls, as the first step. The Israelis think that isolating themselves will make them secure, and not lead to another step. Truly this is a disconnect between the past and the present, between reality and fiction. Safety behind walls ended with the siege of Jericho.

Erecting barricades is a futile act of a disturbed people fulfilling the prophecy of Armageddon through politics. The enemy is within the walls, acting out a passion spiel.

Will this war in Iraq seem like a mistake when the entire news hour with Jim Lehrer is devoted to the faces, in silent review, of United States Soldiers lost to attrition? Or will it seem like mistaken policy when only twenty minutes is devoted to that slow motion slide show?

The realpolitik of National Violence against the disenfranchised, the confused and the mistaken can only be realized as failed policy at the grave sites of the innocent. There is no glory in killing the dispossessed, the misguided and the ignorant.

You can’t hug your enemy with Nuclear Arms. Embracing those that worship the gods of war comes at a risk. Not embracing them is a recipe for disaster.

If Libya can forswear WMD, what does that say about them, and about US?

Feeding North Korea is the best step we can take to embrace their humanity. 60 tons of food is a good first step.........

Bob

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The New Clear Dilemma

It occurred to me that the solution to Nuclear Armaments is not as simple as arm twisting the North Koreans into believing in US, that we and they would sign a non-aggression pact and they would be safe. It’s not about safety. They haven’t spent this much effort to ensure safety.

The million man army is the trump card to ensure safety. They have spent the entire GDP well into the future to become nuclear players. If you have a weapon and agree to defuse it in exchange for a document, you get to do that once. If you have the capability to make these weapons, you’re a player in the high stakes game of mega-destruction. In the first case you can buy your way into a less catastrophic end game. In the second case you agree to sit at a private table and have wine and cigars on a regular basis with the Club members and play "Scenario."

The Nuclear Club had only eight members, now we're talking nine. Those nine members, ought to talk on a regular basis. They had better or we’ll change our guy in a heartbeat and put a guy up there that can sit down and have a reasonable discussion with reasonable men. The stakes of not talking are enormous. Too enormous to contemplate.

North Korea wants to be at that table, and they are, by dint of their admission. This is the only country that has abrogated the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty. The ninth member is Israel, a country that has not abrogate NPT. It never signed in the first place. It is driven by prophecy and politics. Can they long resist participating in the Nuclear Dialogue? Or do they believe that walls and barbed wire will protect them?

You don’t spend a lifetime learning to fabricate Nuclear Weapons to be used as a diplomatic bargaining chip. The bureaucracy that encircles the trophy weapons men devise, will not stand down willingly and take up a second career teaching scuba in the tropics. They have developed a "Limosine habit and a taste for caviar" that is difficult if not impossible to deconstruct.

The enticement to devote a lifetime of study to the issues and skills surrounding mega-ton explosions is an elemental drive to exercise power over the Tribe and once tasted turns men into monsters. Monsters that would never be satisfied to regain a position of serfdom in a nuclear free world. In a Nuclear Free world, all men are equal. In the Nuclear Burdened world some men have deep and dark secrets that make them special. Supermen with the power of gods.

They, not their weapons are the largest obstacle to disarmament and peace. If one nation gives up its Nuclear Weapons, the Industry and the individuals that produce them will be for hire. That is the talent pool rogue nations will find to earn the Merit Badge on their Uniforms. Having earned that badge, they suspend their monsters from tight wires that respond to even the smallest vibration. The monsters for their part revel in the attention. Would they willingly accept less hallowed treatment?

High Priest in the culture of mass death. These are the dangerous individuals in our midst. They have demonstrated to the world that they have allegiance only to science and the dark secrets that science reveals. They have forged an identity that was considered by Goethe in his depiction of the Alchemical Faust, selling his soul to Mephistopheles. The enormity of the suffering, pain and death that this knowledge enables, creates their eminence. Their table is reserved in the corner.

They are the enemies of the peaceful state, lowering our trousers of innocence and fondling away our ability to live simply that others may simply live..........

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