The only honest man at the United Nations
The Wall Street Journal reports that there was only one honest man at the United Nations on Monday: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (for those who do not have Journal subscriptions, the full article is here). This is all true enough, but it ignores Mr. Ahmadinejad’s real message, which is that Iran won’t be deterred by a stricter world antiproliferation treaty, or by one more U.N. Security Council resolution, or by the moral example, as President Obama likes to put it, of a new U.S.-Russian arms treaty. Iran wants the bomb in order to become a more potent Mideast power that can do as it pleases without having to worry about opposition from the world’s largest nations.No. If Obama and other world leaders were serious about stopping Iran, they'd do what needs to be done to stop him. Period.
Give Mr. Ahmadinejad credit for lack of artifice. He says what he and the ruling class in Tehran believe and thus betrays what they intend, however “wild.”
The truly humiliating spectacle is the sight of the world’s leading powers devoting a month to updating a treaty designed to stop proliferation even as Mr. Ahmadinejad makes a mockery of that effort before their very eyes.
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If Mr. Obama and other world leaders were serious about Iran, they wouldn’t merely walk out on Iran’s president. They would rally the world to stop him, explaining the grave stakes to the public, and making clear to Iran that there is a deadline to diplomacy and that military force will be used if diplomacy fails. The only serious person at the U.N. on Monday was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
What could go wrong?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:13 PM
2 Comments:
Hooray for Carl!!
"No. If Obama and other world leaders were serious about stopping Iran, they'd do what needs to be done to stop him. Period."
What does that say for us?
What does it say for those before him that pretty much dropped the ball into the hands of this narcissistic megalomaniac U.S President?
Can't tell me the handwriting on the wall was impossible to read!
Carl you know its not going to happen. If I had to choose, I'd rather have an enemy like Ahmedinejad than a friend like Obama. You can't count on the leader of the Free World to take a principled stand against evil. That would ruin all his "outreach."
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