Oh, how history repeats itself. I just read an article that stated President Obama suggested a deal to eliminate the proposed missile shield deployment in the Czech republic and Poland for help with Iran’s nuclear program. WHAT! Why would one do such a thing? Actually, I think I know why but that is not the point. The key here is judgement.
So the new administration has decided to make a deal with the devil… I mean the former Soviet Socialist Republic. As we know, the best indication of future behavior is past behavior, so what can we expect? Well the last time we had a significant relationship with this government was prior to the second Iraq war. Remember the whole “Oil for Food” program scandal? That’s the one where both Russia and France set up intricate webs of companies and individuals stretching from Europe to Asia in order get money from Saddam. Going back a little in history, one might recall the fact that we spent a significant part of the twentith century in a nuclear standoff with this communist nation. From the 60s through the early 80s, Americans were inclined to build bomb shelters because of this new “partner”. During the cold war, the missile shield was the one thing that got a reaction out of the Soviet regime. Have they changed? They still sell lethal weapons to many of our enemies as well as nuclear secrets to Iran. Russia has had a nuclear cooperation agreement with Iran since mid to late 2002, allegedly for a civilian reactor. Do you trust either of these two parties?
Let’s look at Iran for a moment. A country who’s government absolutely hates the U.S. and would seize any opportunity to get the upper hand on Israel. Now that the U.S. is making deals with Iran through Russia to reduce our influence in Europe. Such a deal proposed by the Obama administration would be perfect! Isolate Israel, reduce influence in Europe, and reduce influence in the Middle East.
One field of engineering involves controls and control networks. We seek to design systems that require single degrees of control or Single Input Single Output (SISO) control networks to reduce the complexity of the control network. One thing you always try to avoid are control problems with two or more degrees of freedom that cannot be decoupled. A U.S. deal with Russia to control Iran is exactly that, an impossible control problem. Decoupling a relationship between Iran and Russia when money and nuclear materials are involved sounds nearly impossible to me. Additionally, like the appeasement deals of the past between the free world and Stalin, a single deal with a regime like the current one in Russia or Iran alone is ill advised. With two degrees of America hating, we are guaranteed to loose!
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