Kissinger Gets The Picture

More and more folks are seeing the big picture, and Henry Kissinger can now be added to those, although rest assured this view is not news to him. Any politician that is not playing "politics with national security" knows that the building threat is a danger to mankind. And this threat if not dealt with swiftly and thoroughly will be the greatest challenge ever faced by the civilized world, given the "nuclear proliferation to terrorists" issue at stake.

People with no real place to call home, like terrorists, have no problem launching these weapons at us except for one, thats getting their hands them. Once Iran accomplishes this they sure won't launch them with their signature, these will be handed off to their proxies for use against we in the west with no problem at all. Simple as that.

Kissinger warns of possible "war of civilizations" - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger warned that Europe and the United States must unite to head off a 'war of civilizations' arising from a nuclear-armed Middle East.

In an opinion column in the Washington Post, the renowned foreign policy expert said the potential for a 'global catastrophe' dwarfed lingering transatlantic mistrust left over from the
Iraq war.

'A common Atlantic policy backed by moderate Arab states must become a top priority, no matter how pessimistic previous experience with such projects leaves one,' Kissinger wrote.

'The debate sparked by the Iraq war over American rashness vs. European escapism is dwarfed by what the world now faces.

'Both sides of the Atlantic should put their best minds together on how to deal with the common danger of a wider war merging into a war of civilizations against the background of a nuclear-armed Middle East.'

Kissinger wrote that the big threat lay in the erosion of nation states and the emergence of transnational groups.
Iran was at the centre of the challenge, he said, with its support for Hezbollah, radical Shiite groups in Iraq and its nuclear program.

Washington must accept that many European nations were more optimistic about talks designed to convince Iran to halt uranium enrichment -- a process Tehran denies is aimed at making weapons, he wrote.

But in return, he said, Europe should accept the process must include a "bottom line" beyond which diplomatic flexibility must not go and a time limit to ensure talks did not become a shield for "developing new assaults."

In the article, Kissinger, national security adviser for former president Richard Nixon, and secretary of state for Nixon and his successor Gerald Ford, warned the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah was still dangerous, after its month-long conflict with Israel."read more

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