[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.memri.org/iran.html

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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=SR3906
Special Report - No. 39
January 5, 2006 No.39

"Iranian Leaders: Statements and Positions (Part I)"

[dc-zoo]

Perhaps an old fashion "arkancide plane ride" may be in order.

[DB]

I'm not buying.

[hershey]

Iran kicked out the IAEA again...on Fox's alligator crawl this am.

[LSUfan]

Sorry. I think this is naive thinking. Once upon a time we heard Khatami was enlightened and would come save the day. Didn't happen.

Then we heard Rafsanjhani, when he was speaker of their "parliament," was a "pragmatist."

Arnaud de Borchgrave had a good article for the UPI recently in which he quoted both those clowns as saying some really wacky, extremist stuff.

Now we are led to believe that the guy who REALLY runs the show in Iran in the first place, the Ayatollah Khameini, is the latest "last, best hope?"

RRRIIIGGGHHHTTT...

I think we better keep our powder dry...tell the LA Times to go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all full up here.

[SampleMan]

With Iran saying it will resume nuclear fuel research, the U.S. should do all in its power to boost the bargaining power of these more moderate Iranian leaders.

I'm starting to think the opposite. The only thing that might shake the West out of it delusions, is a full blown raving Islamo-nut with nukes. Perhaps even a nuclear mushroom.

The United States has invested a great deal of life and treasure to dealing with this scorpion nest. To which most of the West has been far less than helpful.

Perhaps it is best to let Iran's presidential nut-case go wild, while their means of deliver and number of weapons is limited. The French, Germans, Swedes, etc. simply aren't going to grow up until it is THEIR problem.

We've tried to protect the prissy kids on the playground from the bully, but all we've gotten is snide comments from the prissies that they can't tell who the real bully is.

[IonInsights]

Dangerous State Department wishful thinking published in the LA Times.

[snowsislander]

Instead, the U.S. needs to offer Iran an acceptable face-saving mechanism to allow it to master, under appropriate international supervision, the nuclear fuel cycle. A seed planted now could even grow into the long-awaited detente between the two countries and help the U.S. extricate itself from Iraq.

Dangerous (if typical) nonsense from Berkeley: By Dariush Zahedi and Ali Ezzatyar, Dariush Zahedi teaches international political economy and political science at UC Berkeley.

[Semper Paratus]

Heard this crap during the days of the Evil Empire about encouraging moderates in the Soviet Politburo.

[Thumper1960]

Sad to say, the world will not wake up to the menace of Islamic extremism without an Islamic state doing what it must do: detonate a nuclear weapon somewhere, somehow, on its enemy's soil.

Islamic states must murder and maim their imagined foes since that is the nature of Islam. It can do no other.

Millions must die horribly for the leaders of the slumbering West to awake and take notice. The West can do no other, since that, too, is its nature.

[JasonC]

There are real theological opponents of extremism in Iran, but they aren't in the government, they are under house arrest. This stuff is mere wishful thinking.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Not believable!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

meanwhile:

Syria Leader Apparently Seeks Arab Backing ~ Assad feeling the Heat....