When Reality Intrudes, &c.

National Review/Impromptus ^ | 8/27/2009 | Jay Nordlinger

[Servant of the Cross]

In recent days, I’ve been expressing dismay at Hillary Clinton: in this column, for instance, and in this Corner post. Can you stand some more quotation of her? In an interview, she said, “There are some days when we’re dealing with very difficult security issues when you kind of wish, ‘Oh man, I wish I didn’t know that.’”

Yeah, it’s terrible when the world does that to you. Say you want to come to terms with the Iranian regime — want to reason with them. But you find out that, really and truly, they’re bent on acquiring nuclear weapons — which they indicate they’re itching to use. It’s a pain when you have to know something like that — something that will intrude on your fantasy. (snip) ...

Back to that recent Associated Press report (which can be found here, incidentally): “But although even some of his senior aides favor publication, ElBaradei has balked, they said. The agency chief has been keen to avoid moves that could harden already massive Iranian intransigence on cooperating with his agency on probing the allegations and on other issues — and of pushing the U.S. or Israel closer to a possible military strike on Tehran’s nuclear facilities.”

That sentence is garbled, but we get the point: Don’t give the world the information it needs, because doing so may lead to a result you don’t like. This is what the International Atomic Energy Agency is for?

[Servant of the Cross]

A riff by Jay Nordlinger in his Impromptus today regarding a variety of foreign policy topics which expose the Marxists currently in charge. Just outrageous and infuriating that they speak for the USA.