United States the ultimate hypocrite

Re: Trump has just pulled the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal, May 8.

First, the prime minister of Israel — a country whose nuclear program was secret until it was revealed by a whistleblower in 1986, a country that still will not discuss its nuclear arsenal — declared that the world cannot trust Iran because it had a secret nuclear program in the past.

If we accept that reasoning, we should not trust Israel. Further, we should not trust the United States: its nuclear program was a closely held secret before the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Now, the president of the U.S. — a country that has held the whole world hostage to nuclear blackmail since the end of the Second World War — piously intones, “America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail” and uses that to justify imposing strict sanctions on Iran. According to his logic, the world should impose even stricter sanctions on the U.S.

While this is going on, the U.S. is negotiating with North Korea because it has developed nuclear weapons.

The message is that to be treated with respect and fairness, small countries must acquire nuclear weapons.

Where will that end?

David Lorge Parnas, Ottawa