Posted on 01/14/2006 10:03:48 AM PST by billorites
This guy ain't the Lamb, though. He only thinks he is.
Oh, my. Sanctions. That would certainly work.
Even better, how about more talk, which Europe is so good at? That would please everyone, at least until the nuclear bombs start going off.
Sanity from a Euro?
Wow, at least some of thm have it figured out.
Cheers,
knewshound
40 years of endless negotiations for "an ever closer union", where everyone had to follow certain rules (except keep your budget in line, apparently), has trained a generation of European diplomats to focus on process rather than results.
In reading the piece, I couldn't help thinking about Monty Python's "holy hand grenade."
Seriously, the Left in the US is pretty soon going to start claiming GWB "let" the Iranians have a nuclear weapon through inaction. We conservatives have to make a pre-emptive strike, by demonstrating that Euro-style "patient negotiations" didn't work with Iran, and wouldn't have worked in Iraq either.
I don't think the Muslim/Arab world will buy a Persian Mahdi.
If Mr Ahmadinejad can be packaged to Europe as a religious nut maybe they will do something.
And discussions were the only option, since Europe and Russia didn't want to play the UN card.
Now it finally appears that Europe has reached the same conclusion that America did some time ago, which is that Iran is not dealing in good faith and discussions will lead nowhere.
That's a good thing, because Europe was certainly concerned that America was attempting to dictate global foreign policy. So Europe got its chance to lead and succeed.
Now that it's failed to pull off that miracle, perhaps America and Europe, perhaps joined by Russia, can agree to work together at the UN to increase pressure on Iran.
Time is short, though. It's now or never to prevent Iran from getting the bomb. Once they have it, the power shifts dramatically.
A UN resolution or two will save the day!
That's an interesting comment. The british so imminently reasonable and proper, some behavio(u)r just doesn't compute to them...
The question is, why would the Russians suddenly start to cooperate, when they have been the ones chiefly responsible for giving Iran nuclear weapons and only recently offered them surface to air missiles to protect themselves?
Iran has mainly been doing the work of the French and the Russians ever since Jimmuh deposed the Shah and the French sent their old pal Khomeini back in.
Russia may act to delay matters further by referring this to the UN, but what kind of resolution will the Russians and the French allow in the Security Council?
But even they can't actually want Iran with the Bomb, and that's where this is headed. When Iran turned down the Russian proposal it forced a reassessment in Moscow. I think Russia will allow a series of increasingly strong measures to pass the Council, including trade sanctions, in an effort to force Iran back to the Russian proposal.
We'll see.
The only reason I can think of would be because of our going into Iraq with out permission from the UN. If we did it there we would have no problem doing it again and Russia knows it.
So the only reason for them to cooperate is to keep a foot in the door of Iran, to have a say in the Mid East. China is the real question, our going into Iran has even larger implications than it does for Russia.
Since Iran is in your back yard; why don't you clean up the dog poop?
Neither China nor Russia wants us with a foothold in Central Europe, true. But I can't think of a course of conduct more likely to draw us in than what they have pursued.
I doubt whether we have ambitions to occupy Iran, however, even for the short term. So maybe their best option would be to get rid of the mad mullahs and let us turn our attention elsewhere.
Both countries are within range of Iranian missiles, and subject to attacks by Muslim terrorists. I wish they would stop playing with fire.
Central Asia, not Central Europe.
Duh.
But he is not alone. For decades Muslims have been flooded with propaganda that these are the End Times. Certainly thousands, perhaps millions of them believe it.
It is extremely dangerous to mix nuclear weapons with the belief that there is NO FUTURE.
The Sunnis have their own version of the Mahdi: instead of being the 12th Shi'ite Imam, he will be a restorer of the Caliphate, who will spread Islam world-wide.
For more information on Muslim millennialism, see here.
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