Posted on 11/30/2009 3:52:52 PM PST by mojito
Mohamed ElBaradei caps his contentious and ultimately failed 12-year stint as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency today, having spent many years enabling Iran's nuclear bids only to condemn them in his final days in office. Mr. ElBaradei combined his rebuke of Iran with his familiar calls for more negotiation, but we'll take his belated realism about Iran as his tacit admission that Dick Cheney and John Bolton have been right all along. Let's hope the education of the Obama Administration doesn't take as long.
As if to underscore the point, yesterday the Iranian government ordered up 10 additional uranium enrichment plants on the scale of its already operational facility in Natanz, which has a planned capacity of 54,000 centrifuges. That could mean an eventual total of more than 500,000 centrifuges, or enough to enrich about 160 bombs worth of uranium each year. Whether it can ever do that is an open question, but it does give a sense of the scale of the regime's ambitions.
The decision is also a reminder of how unchastened Iran has been by President Obama's revelation in September that Iran had been building a secret 3,000 centrifuge facility near the city of Qom. The IAEA's governing board finally got around on Friday to rebuking Iran for that deception, a vote the Administration trumpeted because both Russia and China voted with the United States. But perhaps only within the Obama Administration can a symbolic gesture by the IAEA be considered a diplomatic triumph.
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When Iran brings their weapons on line, It’ll be entertaining to watch Obie load his lady Levis.......
The anticipated result for the idiots subscribing to the “soft power” doctrine.
“Mohamed ElBaradei caps his contentious and ultimately failed 12-year stint as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency today, having spent many years enabling Iran’s nuclear bids only to condemn them in his final days in office”
Mission Accomplished for him.
Obama is a weak panty waist and they know it.
Blow the bastards up.
Now.
How can you say such a thing?
Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him. Sahih Al-Bukhari (9:57)
Slay the infidels wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush. (Koran 9:5)
Infidels should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides. (Koran 5:33)
I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger tips of them. (Koran 8:12)
Of course, any educated person can tell you those verses are taken out of context...
American power has long been used in the service of liberty and self-rule. Iranian power, specifically including its nuclear variant, will likely be used in the service of something far removed from those values.
I believe our present Administration is blinded by moral neutrality, but more profoundly by its desire to transform the world in the service of Progress - such that it will ultimately accept as valid actions taken by enemies it refuses to recognize as Enemies, for purposes it refuses to see as evil.
Why not give them some more sanctions? Or maybe a timeout? Both work equally as well.
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