[goldstategop]

The West is in denial about the true nature of the man who heads Iran's terrorist regime just as Israel is in denial about the true nature of the man who heads the PA's terrorist regime. Both are committed to the destruction of their opponents. Refusing to deal with an unpleasant reality and sticking one's head in the sand only raises the price of destroying one's enemies later. One only wishes as Caroline Glick has observed, that there was toughness in dealing with the situation at hand. Is the appeasement of Hitler the world witnessed in the 1930s about to repeat itself? We shall see.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[tet68]

The question is, now that he is about to be sworn in as president, will Ahmadinejan abandon terrorism and become a responsible pragmatist who understands that he has to cooperate with the West?

Yer kiddin right? Right??

[dervish]

As Glick notes --

"On the other hand, there are voices being heard in Washington and Europe saying that it might be possible that diplomacy has run its course in Iran. Given that the remedy these foreign policy "hawks" seek is the transfer of the Iranian nuclear issue to the UN Security Council for discussion of possible sanctions, there really isn't that much difference between the two views. Engaging Iran directly will yield no change in behavior and engaging Iran at the Security Council will solve nothing because both China and Russia will veto any call for sanctions against Teheran."

Even revolution in Iran will not change the trajectory of their nuclear ambitions.

Yet no one seems to be prepared to do what ought to be done.