Saturday, January 27, 2007
About Me
- Name: Ben Wattenberg
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Ben J. Wattenberg is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the moderator of the weekly PBS television program Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg, which is now being expanded to include a new one hour program Think Talk . He has served as a presidential speechwriter and advisor for president Lyndon Johnson. Ben also served as an aide and speech-writer to "Scoop" Jackson and VP Hubert Humphrey. He is currently working on a forthcoming book Tales of a Neo-Con ,an accompanying volume of selected posts from this blog, and highlights from the best of Think Tank.
2 Comments:
Ben:
I disagree. I think that Iran has a logical reason for desiring nuclear power plants and they have a number of very logical reasons for distrusting a dependence on outside suppliers.
The results of that equation lead me to believe them when they say that they are focusing on civilian uses of their enrichment facilities.
Of course, they may be interested in keeping the weapons option open, but why is that so different from so many other countries like the US, the UK, France, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Japan, and Israel?
Sure, the current elected head of the Iranian government makes some inflammatory statements - at least they are translated in that way in the Western press. Since I do not speak Farsi, I cannot be so sure of the nuances of what was actually said. Heck, I think that many of the statements given by our leaders are pretty inflamatory. What gives Bolton, for instance, the right to claim a desire for regime change in another soveriegn nation?
Hmnn...
As Ronald Reagan used to repeat to Mikhail Gorbachev --- endlessly ---"Trust --- but verify" --- old Russian saying.
Pls check spelling of "sovreign..."
Thanks for your comment. Seriously.
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