they won, we won
I read with some interest that the US and EU have backed (quite gingerly I am sure) away from thier demand that Iran cease all activities related to the enrichment of uranium.
This all by itself should say something to the voters about how much weight GWB's bluster carries.
Have you noticed that the price of oil tends to react very quickly to the words of the Islamic republic's political and spiritual leaders? The words that they speak are mere bluster, they want what we have and are positioning themselves to get it. They are out-republican-ing the Republicans. That's just the way the world turns, thats all.
I am not that concerned about a nuclear Iran, (or more precisely, a nuclear armed Iran). if they choose to go down this path, then they will be on the same bus that we are, constrained by the same limitations that we are. And not that it needs saying, but any use of nuclear force by any nation in the world would invite such a broad range of retalliation on so many fronts, (strangely, these do not necessarily include military retalliation), that they would be out of the game for a long while.
It's time to do business with them, get their radical fundamentalist clerics in a room with our radical fundamentalist clerics and see if they can entertain each other while the rest of us go on.
We got what we wanted, a nation that is entering the world community and playing by the rules that we do.
happy now?
This all by itself should say something to the voters about how much weight GWB's bluster carries.
Have you noticed that the price of oil tends to react very quickly to the words of the Islamic republic's political and spiritual leaders? The words that they speak are mere bluster, they want what we have and are positioning themselves to get it. They are out-republican-ing the Republicans. That's just the way the world turns, thats all.
I am not that concerned about a nuclear Iran, (or more precisely, a nuclear armed Iran). if they choose to go down this path, then they will be on the same bus that we are, constrained by the same limitations that we are. And not that it needs saying, but any use of nuclear force by any nation in the world would invite such a broad range of retalliation on so many fronts, (strangely, these do not necessarily include military retalliation), that they would be out of the game for a long while.
It's time to do business with them, get their radical fundamentalist clerics in a room with our radical fundamentalist clerics and see if they can entertain each other while the rest of us go on.
We got what we wanted, a nation that is entering the world community and playing by the rules that we do.
happy now?
posted by eccentric recluse at 7:31 AM
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