Charles Lane of the Washington Post wrote without any sense of irony, "If a regime would defraud, imprison and murder its own people, or support terrorism throughout its own neighborhood, why would it hesitate to deceive and manipulate other nations in its pursuit of a nuclear weapon?"
Last December a certain regime I know overwhelmingly passed a law called the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013. Among other provisions, that law allows for indefinite detention without trial of any citizen the regime deems dangerous in a secret court.
This regime kills its own citizens with no benefit of due process. For example a citizen, Anwar Awlaki, was killed by a drone strike in Yemen late in 2011. A week later his sixteen year old son, Abdulrahman Awlaki, born in Denver, Colorado was killed in a Yemeni cafe along with a cousin in a separate drone strike. No trial or evidence presented in either case.
During the last three years this certain regime has been funding, supplying weapons to, and training al-Qaida linked rebels trying to overthrow the Syrian government. These lovable rebels have been busy setting off car bombs in Syrian cities, shelling schools, and creating all kinds of havoc and human misery. There are even some horrific videos online of these rebels beheading Orthodox priests with a saw and cutting out and eating the liver of a dead government soldier. If that's not supporting terrorism, then I don't know what is.
This regime is engaged in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists through its proxies as well as sending computer worms like Stuxnet and Flame to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program which is perfectly legal under international law since Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Ironically, this regime supplied nuclear technology to Iran when the Shah was in power.
This regime even intercepts the phone calls of its own citizens, reads their e-mails, and checks up on what websites they look at, all without warrant.
Of course this regime I'm talking about is the United States of America, land of the free and home of the brave. Mr. Lane asks the question how can we trust Iran? I ask how can Iran trust us?
DAVID B. KILLIAN, Carroll Twp., York Co.