It is interesting to observe the Bush administration's self-righteous posturing over the question of whether Iran is – or should be prevented from – developing a nuclear weapons system. Coming from a country that holds some ten to twelve thousand of such weapons in its quiver, American appeals to the dangers of nuclear proliferation seem hypocritical and self-serving. On the other hand, allowing only the charter members of the nuclear club in on the racket does have the same purpose, at the international level, that gun-control laws serve domestically: to disarm those the empire wishes to control with the threat … Continue reading CXLI – The Manhattan Projection