U.S. says Iran will Get Incentives "Very Quickly"

AP ^ | May 5, 2008 | Sue Pleming

[freerepublic_or_die]

LOL. You've got to love that title..

That is the title verbatim.... "Very Quickly". I would have to say that this double entendre is unintentional, unintentionally funny.

Let's all hope they get the only "incentives" they're really ever going to respond to, a glorious mushroom cloud over Towel-headed Tehran.

[AU72]

Meanwhile “Ayatollah: Iran won’t stop nuke program”.

[elpadre]

the best incentive would be a ring of steel (US and British Navy ships) and a heavy cover of US and friendly aircraft.

Nothing in, nothing out.

mobilize and arm the Iranian students - they’re ready!

then stand back

[mmichaels1970]

"We simply don't understand why the Iranians have not put more interest in it," the senior U.S. official told Reuters.

Because they want to blow people up ya big dummy.

[JZelle]

[Carry_Okie]

"It is not a major step forward, frankly, because we think it was a very good offer in the first place. We simply don't understand why the Iranians have not put more interest in it," the senior U.S. official told Reuters.

Condi, sweetheart, read the tag line.

[BrewingFrog]

I always thought the best incentive package offer was “Stop your nuclear work, or we go nuclear on you.”

Of course, diplomats don’t think that way...

[Ken522]

"It is nice to see, I guess, that they are keeping such an open mind about this by rejecting it before they have even seen it," said State Department spokesman Tom Casey...

Well, all you highly-paid Harvard-educated GS-18s at the State Department ought to be able to understand you're not offering them something to which they'll respond - but they will respond to force, like a bombing campaign ...

[OCC]

"It is nice to see, I guess, that they are keeping such an open mind about this by rejecting it before they have even seen it," said State Department spokesman Tom Casey when asked about Iran's comments

At least there is one person in the State Department with some common sense (and sense of humor).

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Are we such morons ?

[steel_resolve]

“I think this will move very quickly,” said a senior U.S. official, “almost as quick as the strike force amassing in the gulf ready to strike Iran if they refuse.”

[freebird5850]

Didn’t we learn ANYTHING from N. Korea and their tactics?

[BOBTHENAILER]

I’m with ya bro. LOVE that title. I only wish it had the steel behind it that is implied.

[TexasCajun]

"I just wuv America! Where Maddie? I wuv Maddie wong time! "

[txhurl]

bttt

[jerri]

Let's all hope they get the only "incentives" they're really ever going to respond to...

when I read the title I was thinking the same thing and started laughing to myself.

[airborne]

"It is not a major step forward, frankly, because we think it was a very good offer in the first place. We simply don't understand why the Iranians have not put more interest in it," the senior U.S. official told Reuters.

And therein lies the problem.

[Fox_Mulder77]

“Stop your nuclear work, or we go nuclear on you.” Of course, diplomats don’t think that way...

That's too bad. If they did this world would be much more peaceful.

[r9etb]

And therein lies the problem.

Though it reads like it, I seriously doubt that there's really any problem in "understanding" on the part of the "senior US official." It looks to me like a bit of diplo-speak, designed to elicit exactly the sorts of responses we've seen on this thread.

Pretty much everybody does understand the Iranian position ... but diplomats -- whose job is to negotiate settlements short of war -- can't afford to get too specific too soon. The threats need to come from a different quarter.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]