[cowdog77]

Shades of North Korea ~ The State Department just never learns!!

[CJ Wolf]

“The State Department just never learns!!”

Come on another Daft UN resolution? Gotta be good, maybe we can use it in our next ‘authorization of force’ declaration.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

In some strange fashion, I almost wish that the Iranians would light a test nuke off in their desert just to prove to Condi and her State Department minions exactly how stupid they have been in dealing with both the mullahs and North Koreans.

[BigFinn]

Condippeasment.

[stuartcr]

I’m sure she’s just obeying her orders.

[G.Mason]

Go get ‘em Jorge. Fight that WOT, and the war on drugs, and the war on American citizens, and the war on the conservatives, and the ...

[LibertyRocks]

Agreed. Does anyone really think they will truly give up their quest? I think this would just push it further underground... Shades of N. Korea is right! UGH...

[edcoil]

Yesterday, the state department spokesman note the North Korean 6 country discussions were in complete breakdown.

They give billions of our dollars away for nothing and it is exactly what we get.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Bring Ahmadinejad and the mad mullahs an autographed basketball and a bottle of Pierre Jouet. They’ll forget all about the 12th Imam and their dreams of a caliphate.

[rjp2005]

Peace in our time.

[cowdog77]

The U.N.’s top humanitarian affairs official, John Holmes, rebuked Israel for meting out collective punishment and Condoleezza Rice urged Israeli leaders to avert a humanitarian crisis. She did not repeat her “failure is not an option” mantra. Perhaps that’s better left for a bumper sticker, along with “Rice go home.”

[kinsman redeemer]

(finally... a new "Breaking News" story)

[AU72]

I get a horrible vision of Rice visiting Tehran like Albright’s fiasco in Pyongyang.

[weegee]

Didn’t the Shah of Iran send Lazlo Toth/aka Fr. Guido Sarducci a nice tie in the 1970s?

[Billthedrill]

Great idea. We normalize relations with Iran. Just as soon as (1) our embassy is rebuilt, (2) the people kidnapped and held for 444 days are paid reparations, (3) the parties responsible including Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are imprisoned for breaking Iranian and international law in the matter, (4) the sitting government issues a public apology for the outrageous and illegal violation of U.S. property and people there, and (5) the survivors and heirs of Iranian-sponsored terrorism such as the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut are properly compensated and the instigators brought to justice.

Until then no deal.

[sappy]

new world order i guess, condi.

[Cold Heat]

This is simply a reiteration of our current and only public policy.

It was prompted by the recent butt whooping that the real power in Iran gave to president Amanutjob.

It will likely be ignored by Iran's High Council, but the true audience was the Iranian people.

IMO, this is a good policy.

[mojito]

Diplomats always believe everything can be resolved through negotiations: meetings, meetings, more meeting, a press statement, and still more meetings. For the State Department mind, there is no difference between inertia and resolution. Fanatics taking action to bring about the things that they say and believe is just too crude and unwashed. Besides, they never get invited to Davos to sit on a self-important panel to discuss important global events.

[BlueDragon]

"Rice Offers Iran Prospect of Normal Ties"

yeah, ok, that would be ok for the Iranians, but we should be sticking with using

since it's much less likely we could get strangled with a clip on!

[Cecily]

“Rice said this new relationship could be defined not by fear and mistrust but growing cooperation, expanding trade and exchange, and the peaceful resolution of differences.”

Would the Iranians and their proxies stop killing/helping to kill our soliders in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East? You should add it to your daydream list, Condi.

[Blogatron]

Fresh hostages!