Collective Denial on Iran
Col Mike Walker, USMC (ret)
All,
Love to listen to the pundits from all perspectives sidestep the real crisis with Iran.
It is the most impressive example of collective denial of reality I have ever witnessed -- and it has been going on for decades.
It is a second and much more severe case of this type of infective mental disorder.
The first case dealt with North Korea where (as now) all the "best and brightest" minds were in complete denial that North Korea would get nuclear weapons.
But that pales in comparison to the collective denial about Iran's nuclear arms objectives.
In that sense, the JCPOA was a manifestation of schizophrenia.
It gave Iran a clear pathway to build nuclear weapons while denying Iran would follow it to build nuclear weapons.
You can't make this stuff up.
I listen over and over again to an endless stream of politicians, government officials, and media talking heads (literally from across the globe) drone on about Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons as if it is not going to happen -- as if these opining poobahs have the "power" to prevent it.
That is a true mental disorder.
As with North Korea, Iran decided decades ago to get nuclear weapons and like Norht Korea, it will get them.
The only question is the one never addressed: What is the plan when Iran builds its weapons?
We have had decades to prepare but if you deny reality, you always wind up unprepared when reality eventually slaps you in the face.
That virtually assures us that we will be in a true global crisis when the Ayatollahs go nuclear.
I do not look forward to that day but I know who to blame: Ourselves.
