By sheer coincidence, I've been following Season 4 of the always gripping 24 (plot spoiler ahead!) and wondering how a nuclear meltdown in neighboring Iran would affect Kuwait.
Well wonder no more, fellow citizens... As this article in yesterday's Al-Watan makes painfully clear, if something does indeed go wrong at any of Iran's nuclear reactor plants.... we're screwed!
Even if by some miracle Kuwait gets on the right track to democracy and freedom (as opposed to the sham that it is today), the Constitution and the rule of law are in full effect, and Kuwaiti citizens become the most productive in the region.. a nuclear holocaust could wipe it all out!
Choke on that!
I think AlQabas wrote something about this couple of months ago. If im not mistaken, we're only 300KM away from Iran's nuclear reactors, & as you said, if something went wrong there, we would definitely be screwed!
ReplyDeleteWhat if the US got into war with Iran, or even worst, what if Israel decided they would hit their nuclear reactors?
أهم شى الجز و الساهون ما يتأثر بالاشعاع
ReplyDeletebo ghazi... my thoughts exactly
ReplyDeleteوآنا أقول ليش ما أحب إيران
ReplyDeleteبس ترى هذي مصيبة
"a nuclear holocaust could wipe it all out!"
ReplyDeleteOr could it?? maybe it'll put everything on the right track !!
Being sarcastic BTW.. :)
ReplyDeletejashanmal
ReplyDeleteالله يبشرك بالخير
ايران يحكمها آيات الله، وابتلاء المؤمن من آيات الله.. واللهم لا اعتراض
ReplyDeleteكل عام والجميع بخير.. تفاءلوا.. دام الشيخة لطيفة (اللي قبل أقل من أربع سنوات كانت ضد حقوق المرأة السياسية وبشدة) صارت تدعو لدخول المرأة في سلك القضاء
لكل منطقة من مناطق العالم سلبياتها و ايجابياتها, و هذا شي واضح جدا في السنوات الأخيرة. حروب, زلازل, براكين, فياضانات,اوزون و هلم جرا
ReplyDeleteقدرنا في الكويت أن نكون سكان دولة صغيرة و غنية و تقع في موقع استراتيجي عالمي, قدرنا الآخر أن نكون في وسط ثلاث حيتان كبار و هم ايران و السعودية و العرق, قدرنا أيضا أن القوة العظمى في العالم لها مصالح مباشرة عندنا و حوالينا
فلن نستطيع ايقاف ايران عن تصنيع سلاحها النووي, و لن نستطيع ايقاف امريكا من ضرب ايران, و لن نستطيع منع حرب عالمية ثالثة
كل ما نستطيع فعله هو الصلاة و الدعاء بالسلامة و حفظ الوطن الغالي
و انشالله الامور ما تتطور الى أسوأ من الحاصل
آسف للاطالة يا اصدقائي
That program IS quite stressful.
ReplyDelete...a nuclear holocaust would wipe out everything!
ReplyDeleteI tend to go along with THE DON verbatim.
It just might induce favourable mutations briging forth an overdue correction in the moral fibre, integrity and work ethic of Govt. employees; agreed it is using the garden fork to lift the mercury but puppy love is wasted on some and it's about time they are smothered with some tough love.
Horror indeed. And all your comments are making it even more horrible to bear the undeniable scenarious that are running around my head now.
ReplyDeletetoo little... Sadly we won't be around to see the results of this tough love
ReplyDeleteJewaira... sorry I didn't mean to scare everyone, but in the past I never cared about Iranian nuclear ambitions. Now '24' got me thinking... I guess we'll just call Jack Bauer to save the day!
Our government is afraid to say anything to Iran. Iran would enterpret it as hotstile.
ReplyDeleteIf all Kuwait stands up against it, then our government will have the a popular backbone to lean on.
Hey guys/gals!!
Did you give up on life and Kuwaitis or are you brave enough to save yourself from Iran Nuke Reactor deadly incompetence!!!???
Who has the guts to live?????
LET'S DO SOMETHING!!
Jashanmal
ReplyDeleteMusallam albarrak or Islamists are controlling the government???? No way, it's the other way around.
This Nuclear issue is a popular issue. I would bet you that the government are the secret movers behind the articles; they may now know the potential dangers.
They just cannot act out of the blue. They want the public opinion to "initiate" action. After all, Iran still feels that Kuwait was unjust in supporting Iraq in 1979.
Even though Iran may feel that way, it does not give them the right to build the nukes so close to us.
Now, if you know government needs to have wide public support/initiative. What will you do?? This issue might just show you where the gut/awareness level of the q8y population is.
unfortunately in this day in age, Kuwaitis seem to care about how much more money they can squeeze out of the government than care about the country!
ReplyDeleteI remember reading something about this in AlQabas a while back but nothing else since, u just dont get the feeling that its a priority at all in anyone's agenda
zinzin
ReplyDeleteI guess the power of prayers is paramount.
However, the really knowledgeable muslims tell us: "I3qilhawa Wa Tawakkal"
I guess it is about role distribution:
some of us can ya3qilha so that some of us can yatawakkal. Those to compliment ech other rather than clash.
Kuwait... Democracy... Freedom?
ReplyDeleteThe three words DO NOT exist altogether in one dictionary. I'm sorry to say that but it is a fact...
Happy New Year 9al 3omrek, w'la t7alem wayed...
So..would I have glow-in-the-dark babies soon? how fun..better way to save electricity instead of switching on the lights & looking for them.
ReplyDeleteI don't know, Kwt has been radioctive for too long for us to worry now..
ReplyDeleteThe year old Hersh article on the creepy plans for Iran: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact
sabahf78
ReplyDeletescary stuff!!
Well, your excellent reply seems to indicate the cry under a heavy blanket of our political system for popular support.
Guys/gals are we doing anything about this on top of Prayers, or is the weather now cold enough to accept nuclear meltdown to warm/evaporate our hearts??
What will our kids think of us??
Zaydoun thx for bringing this up!!
Hello,
ReplyDeleteThere are some points to be considered beside all of the "destructive" effects of an accident or a bomb.
People seems to forget that in the 1980s Iraq also initiated a nuclear plant and was destroyed by Israeli air force and we were not affected as far as I remember.
The points to be considered for further more investigations are:
1. Nuclear plants differ in power and productivity, and according to some experts, Iran is still on the beginning. Thus, I personally don't expect that it would reach the level of Chernobyl yet.
2. Every nucler plant, when built, is designed carefully for all climatic and geographical concerns. Let's not forget that the plant in Iran is not built solely by Iran, but with help from other leaders in this field such as Russia and China (along with India).
3. The design of nuclear plants has changed dramatically since Chernobyl disaster. The safety measures and procedures changed and more secure systems were developed and still developing. Chernobyl disaster itself was caused by unpredictable malfunctioning in the control of the coolants (apparatus that is responsible to cool down the plant). That is, the disaster was not caused by any natural causes like Earthquakes.
4. Distance between the city and Kuwait is something, and the geographical levels is something else. The western coast of Iran is surrounded by Zagros mountains, and they might work as a natural shield. Zagros mountains, by the way, are mainly formed by igneous rocks, which are in return, radioactive by nature.
5. In case of diaster, the climate and wind direction plays an important rule in case of such accidents. The dominant air direction in Kuwait is from NW to SE.
6. Politically, and I'm not a politician or following up politics, it is incorrect to strike on Iran at such moment. US is weaker than before and yet turbulent from the inside and the outside, and a look into the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq would tell obviously that another trap is not needed, specially with a country like Iran. US army is having trouble controlling Iraq with all the air forces and land forces, so you can imagine as you like how Iran to be managed in any case.
7. To know the truth, we shouldn't follow the media. We should read and be more scientific in the approach of such scientific-related subjects. Authors of many articles, specially on American newspapers, are not a good source of information. We don't know who is playing a propaganda, and who is true, or what are their resources even. Logic can save the panic.