SovereignLife Freedom Blog

We are living in Orwell’s world of 1984 right now. It has already arrived, although a little late. I could write thousands of words to illustrate this fact, but I’ll limit myself to simply discussing one example of it.

Take the situation with regards Iran. They say they are not building a bomb. The IAEA (and even certain US intelligence reports) agree – they are not. They are just mastering the uranium fuel cycle (knowledge of which could be used for building a bomb of course) in order to generate nuclear power.

Never mind. Repeat something often enough and it will stick. And so it is, with the assertion that Iran is building a nuclear bomb. Certainly Israel believes it (or at least claims to believe it) and sees Iran as an existential threat.

In response to this the USA is pushing for a diplomatic solution. Interestingly enough this “diplomatic” approach includes proposals to put an embargo in place to prevent Iran from importing petroleum.

Now, I don’t know about you – but in my book an embargo is an act of war. It’s certainly not diplomacy – which is the practice of negotiating.

Diplomacy has been given a serious facelift. No longer does it mean sitting down and discussing stuff – but sitting down, making demands, then threatening warlike actions should the diplomatic route fails. In this way diplomacy means “do what we say or we’ll use force”.

At one end of the military options scale we have Israel which continually threatens war as a means of stopping Iran from doing what it says it is not doing. And at the other end we have US “diplomacy” which is doublespeak for “war by different means” – as in sanctions, embargoes, and various forms of economic warfare.

To understand how this ‘diplomacy’ is viewed by the Iranians, simply consider how it would be viewed by people in the USA, if Iran were to organise an embargo of petroleum into that country. I can hear it now – “Iran has declared war on the USA, let’s bomb the bejesus out of them!”