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American Thinker has commented before on Edward Markey's affection for America's enemies (for example, Venezuelan tyrant-in-the making Hugo Chavez ). Now we have this principle on display again (with an added dash of hypocrisy) when it comes to supplying nuclear technology to nations in the Middle East.   Today's Boston Globe has an article  about the growing interest among some "experts' and Congressmen in having the international community supply a nuclear processing plant to Iran as a way to discourage its own nuclear program-which is quite extensive and certainly on the verge of being beyond the point of return given the billions...

WASHINGTON // A senior State Department official said yesterday that he expects Iran to reject a U.N.-backed entreaty to end its nuclear enrichment program and added that the United States will quickly press for international sanctions against Tehran if an Aug. 31 deadline is not met. Undersecretary of State R. Nicholas Burns, the Bush administration's point man on Iran, said the United States has the backing of fellow permanent members of the United Nations Security Council for economic and diplomatic sanctions and will push for them to be imposed early next month if Iran does not halt uranium enrichment at...