Meanwhile dreadfully sane peace-loving America is responsible for 48% of the worlds armaments trade. It has over 700 foreign military bases and 12 nuclear carrier fleets.
But that doesnt have anything to do with terrorism!
We are dreadfully sane peace lovers!
The recent book by James Carroll titled House of war describes how the Pentagon death-machine came to dominate every aspect of USA "culture".
The "culture" of death literally rules.
This site 1. www.thirdworldtraveler.com gives a comprehensive picture of the world's largest terrorist state.

Ted Lapkin, the apologist for the biggest rogue state of them all, continues to see things through his own prism. So the Argentinian police say that TNT was smuggled in as a diplomatic parcel - well to borrow a phrase from Christine keeler; they would say that! Anything so that they can justify the TNT getting through their own porous borders.

As usual, members of the Jewish lobby in Australia are touting what they believe to be the interests of Israel before that of Australia, although they always try to claim that these are one and the same. A nuclear armed Iran is hardly likely to attack Israel any more than the Soviet Union was likely to attack the US. This is not because of the goodness of Iran or the USSR but because of the certain devastating retaliation.

Israel likes being the supreme power in the Middle East, just as the US likes being – despite Iraq – the supreme power in the world. Countries are no different from individual people in that it is human nature to seek power over others; they then have little need to compromise and consider the needs and feelings of others – and this is how Israel (and the US when it can) now acts.

A nuclear armed Iran would certainly be able to increase it power in the region; but a better balance of power in the region would most likely assist the pursuit of stability. While Lapkin has not mentioned Hitler in this article -- itself a surprise, because it is part and parcel of the usual fear campaign – it needs to be remembered that Hitler invaded France, Poland, Russia etc because he (and many of his generals) thought he could successfully do it. Indeed, this is why George Bush invaded Iraq and has not invaded North Korea.

Lapkin might read my book, “Dictatorial CEOs and their Lieutenants: Inside the Executive Suites of Napoleon, Stalin, Ataturk, Mussolini, Hitler and Mao”, to get a grip on reality. Click here:http://www.jeffschubert.com/

TNT..like a bugs bunny cartoon or something. ACME TNT and Anvils!

Ted,

You have written a most reasonable commentary on events that have been documented on the Internet. However, you will find if you choose to revisit the pages for blogs, that the usual suspects are out in force. For example, first cab off the rank was Ho-hum, who has lived up to his name and is no doubt secure in the ranks of the moral relativists who blame America for all the problems in the world. If he is Australian, he appears to forgotten that US power saved Australia during World War II (and please spare me the Russians did it all argument).

A couple of years ago Cambridge academic Christopher Andrew noted that our (Western) political culture is dominated by an unprecedented malady: Historical Attention Span Deficit Disorder or HASDD. Applying Occam's razor, it simply means that we have failed to heed the lessons of history. How true! Professor Andrew was greatly concerned with terrorism and political fanaticism. He said; "That remains a serious problem because of one fundamental, largely unnoticed continuity between the threats that faced us in the 20th century and those that face us in the 21st. One of the very few to draw attention to that continuity has been Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate, holocaust survivor and human rights activist. Several years before 9/11 Wiesel said this: 'The principal challenge of the 21st century is going to be exactly the same as the principal challenge of the 20th century: How do we deal with fanaticism armed with power?'

To that we might rightly add how do we deal with fanaticism armed with nuclear capability? Ted, for your efforts you will be vilified for speaking out against Islamic fundamentalism, promoting the cause of "the Jewish lobby" (or conspiracy) and putting yourself in direct opposition to the "hate America first lobby." I wish you luck and encourage those that agree with you to back you up in print.

"Argentine investigators also found ample evidence to indicate orders for the bombing were signed, sealed and delivered from Tehran."

Evidence abounds. A shame Mr Lapkin can't be on the jury and hear the evidence tested in an open court. Will there be a trial which would meet our Australian standards of fairness, or is this just another circus side-show?

However brave the Argentinian were to attack the Falkland Islands, I doubt they would attempt extending their hegemony all the way to Iran. Is it perhaps that press releases and daring propaganda stunts don't require such an extended supply line?