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During three years of painstaking negotiations with Iran, Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel peace laureate who heads the IAEA, went out of his way to play along with the charade that Iran's nuclear ambitions were entirely peaceful and designed to develop an indigenous nuclear power industry. This, after all, is a country with known oil reserves in excess of 90 billion barrels, more than enough to meet its energy needs well into the next century.

If I see this stupid remark one more time, I'm going to scream. Nuclear power is way cheaper than oil for the generation of electricity. If Iran were the most loving, peaceful, wonderful nation on earth, they would still be idiots if they did not use nuclear power rather than oil for generating electricity. The oil is much better sold to others than wastefully burned to generate electricity.

When I see the stupid claim emboldened above, I know I am reading a propaganda piece or the work of an idiot.

When I see the stupid claim emboldened above, I know I am reading a propaganda piece or the work of an idiot.

When I read the above quote, I know I am witnessing intellectual incontinence from a person unworthy to inherit the freedom he's been offered.

This, after all, is a country with known oil reserves in excess of 90 billion barrels, more than enough to meet its energy needs well into the next century.

Possibly more relevant, I've heard the Iranians don't have the infrastructure to get their excess natural gas to market, so they just flare it off.

If they wanted energy, it would be a lot simpler and cheaper to just build a pipeline or a natural gas-powered electrical generating station to use that gas.