August 20, 2006

Damn the Torpedoes

Why do we bother with these people? They're a perfect example of why diplomacy without muscle to back it up, is worthless.

    Iran said on Sunday it would not suspend uranium enrichment, ruling out the main demand in a nuclear package backed by six world powers that aims to allay Western fears Tehran is seeking to build atomic bombs.

    Iran says it will formally respond by Tuesday to proposals made by the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany. The six have offered incentives for Iran to suspend enrichment, a process that has both military and civilian uses.

    Tehran, which insists its nuclear aims are purely civilian, shows no sign of accepting the package.

    "We are not going to suspend (enrichment). The issue was that everything should come out of negotiations, but suspension of uranium enrichment is not on our agenda," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told a weekly news conference.


They're not going to stop.

At that point, why don't the diplomats hang it up?

Iran Posted by AlexC at August 20, 2006 9:01 PM

At what point will the United States refuse to be sandbagged again? The UN solution in Lebanon is an insult to the IDF forces.

The diplomats have no incentive to hang it up. However badly they screw up the world, they can stay in New York and eat at fine restaurants, and not pay parking tickets. Who'd hang up that gig?

Posted by: jk at August 20, 2006 9:21 PM

I propose it's time for the United States to become a "rogue state." Iran and North Korea can do whatever they want and all they get is, "stop that or we'll sanction you" from the western world. Fine. Let's fire 10 missiles of our own, but ours have MIRV nuclear warheads. It's well beyond time for the tyrants of the world to know that we WILL defend our lives and our property. Dozens of mushroom clouds visible from every square inch of Iran and North Korea should effect a new cooperation from these heretofore unaccountable bullies.

Posted by: johngalt at August 21, 2006 3:15 PM

"Dozens of mushroom clouds visible from every square inch of Iran and North Korea should effect a new cooperation from these heretofore unaccountable bullies." In the land of the martyr? Care to place a wager on that?

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