Posted on 02/05/2005 10:46:27 AM PST by Dan Evans
As Tehran raise fears with its increasing nuclear capability, the world must address Iran's emotional needs and agree to a nonagression pact, says Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.
Biden was cited by Boston Globe columnist H.D.S. Greenway, who wrote that President Bush's rhetoric about freedom and specific references to Iran is making people wonder if Tehran will be the next target, after Iraq.
Greenway wrote yesterday: "Senator Joseph Biden said that even if Iran was a full democracy like India, it would want nuclear capability, like India. What the world needed to address was Iran's emotional needs, he said, with a nonaggression pact."
The columnist added that the U.S. and Europe might not succeed in preventing an Iranian nuclear bomb "unless they are willing to address Iran's nightmares and guarantee its safety. But that runs contrary to the reigning theology in Washington that divides the world into good and evil, and believes in the benefits of using force."
Biden engaged in a rare public exchange with an Iranian official Jan. 28 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The senator is at odds with administration officials who believe the way to handle Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons program and support for terrorism is through isolation.
After expressing concern about Tehran's nuclear intentions, the senator told Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi he also is urging his own government to rethink its positions.
"You have to grow up and my administration has to grow up, with all due respect, and find out if there is any common ground," Biden said. "We are on the course of unintended consequences."
Biden criticized Bush's unwillingness to rule out an armed response.
"I hope we're all smarter about this, smarter than we've been," he said. "I hope our leadership is brighter because if it's not, it's a very dull picture for the region, and for humanity."
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Senator Biden needs to whisper to Ted Kennedy, "Hey, boss... things aren't going so well in these elections. Hey, boss... the sheep might actually wake up to our scam. Hey, boss..."
Emotional needs?
What a bunch of claptrap.
Biden needs to see a shrink to determine competency.
Now, that's what the President did to address the emotional needs of Iran: encourage them to throw off the yoke of terrorism, tyranny, theocracy, and communism under which they live. The Iranian people don't want a nuclear weapon pointed at them.Today, Iran remains the world's primary state sponsor of terror--pursuing nuclear weapons while depriving its people of the freedom they seek and deserve. We are working with European allies to make clear to the Iranian regime that it must give up its uranium enrichment program and any plutonium reprocessing, and end its support for terror. And to the Iranian people, I say tonight: As you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you.
(Applause.)
What Iran wants is a nonagression pact with the US so
that when they turn Tel Aviv to into a smoking crater,
we won't come after them. (Not that that would stop us mind you,but then they would say we were breaking our pact,
Peaceful muslim nation vs hegemonic imperialists, etc etc.)
"As you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you.
(Applause.)
Now, that's what the President did to address the emotional needs of Iran: encourage them..."
I know you mean "emotional" not in the Bidenesque clap-psychobabble-trap way.
The truly Heroic utterances of this generation become under its socialist nannyisms merely mealymouthed shrinkeze.
Biden has been in the Senate for so long, he is just another vacuous cipher.
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