"I'm Not Paying the Fine....." joke

Apparently Iran would like to have some nuclear weapons.

Who can blame them? Getting nuclear weapons is sort of like being in the Hells Angels. It's not that people actually respect you or think you're any smarter or more important than you used to be, but they sure pretend to.

We, on the other hand, would not like Iran to have nuclear weapons. We would like them to have tea parties and crayons and possibly even Pop Rocks, but no nuclear weapons.

The interesting conundrum is this: We were the ones that gave them the stuff to build the weapons in the first place.

Because we wanted them to have nuclear weapons.

We did. But now we don't. See?

Happened with Iraq too.

We gave them loads of weapons but then decided we'd rather they didn't have them.

We wanted them to have them then.

But not now.

See?

Er, may I offer a suggestion?

I think this "Here, have some weapons/If you have any weapons we're going to bomb you" cycle could get exhausting eventually (and by "eventually," I probably mean "yesterday.")

So how about now, when we give people weapons, we just assume that we're probably going to want them to not-have-weapons at some not-too-far-away point.

Thusly, instead of giving the weapons away, perhaps we could just let the other countries check them out. You know, like library books.

That way, when we want them back:

Sorry Pakistan, your weapons are overdue. You have to return them.

No, you can't renew them.

Someone else is waiting to check them out.

It'll work, I think.