Last throes of Iran diplomacy

Make no mistake: if the United States wants to preemptively attack Iran for whatever reason by whatever means using whatever weapons, we will do so with or without United Nations support and approval, as we did in Iraq.\nTime is not on the Iranian side. Recent concessions from the U.S. diplomacy camp about Tehran's suspected nuclear weapon program does not mean the United States is not refining and planning to test bunker-busting nuclear weapons that could wipe Iran's nuclear program off the face of the planet (if Israel does not do so first).\nIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not helping Tehran's cause of building a "peaceful" nuclear program in the eyes of the West, considering his continuing rhetoric about eliminating the "Great Satan" and Israel. Yet, U.S. President George Bush is not helping Washington's cause of a peaceful solution either, because the underlying issues of international tension toward the United States are not receiving due consideration.\nAnd no, jealousy of U.S. freedom is not the answer.\nTehran has stated from the outset that they intend to only develop "peaceful" nuclear power, despite its fear of nuclear-weapon possessing Israeli aggression. Meanwhile, Washington has stated from the beginning that any Iranian nuclear program is not a welcome addition to international security and that it intends to develop an arsenal of nuclear weapons much like our own.\nPresident Bush seems willing to join the global negotiating table, offering Tehran international support and supplies to construct a minimal "peaceful" nuclear program, while assuring the Iranian people that the international community will help protect them from their neighbors.\nWhat would you think if you were the average Iranian?\nThe United States once shuffled Iranian leaders like dice at a casino craps table; we sponsored a neighbor-to-neighbor war pitting Iraq against Iran during the 1980s; we named Iran as a part of our "Axis of Evil;" we have proven our willingness to contribute to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of global citizens through international sanctions; and, we have a nasty tendency to threaten our global neighbors with violence and war as a means of diplomacy.\nU.S. efforts at international nuclear proliferation are meaningless in a world where we possess the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, continue to want to develop and test more advanced models, declare nuclear power the savior of energy independence and have proven our willingness to wipe entire cities off the face of the map regardless of civilian casualties, as we did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.\nNuclear weapons are not practical peacetime deterrents or wartime special effects. And, if Iran used such a weapon, even the Iranian clerics must know that the international community would demand their heads on a platter, served with a heap of international justice.\nIf we want to resolve this issue, the United States must address why Iran even would want a nuclear weapon at all, how we might better contribute to Iranian feelings of international security and what concessions we are willing to make to better ensure that human falibility does not instigate the nuclear weapon downfall of \nhumanity.