Posted by
graves on Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:23:45 PM
Iran still considering offers
And they'll continue to consider as long as the West is absolutely toothless. People need to realize that negotiation, merely for the sake of negotiation, is worse than worthless. It allows regimes that have no intention of following through to continue to consolidate power and build up while good intentions provide the paving stones to h***.
This is absurd. Have we learned nothing from the NKorea debacle of the 1990s? Have we learned nothing from the back of Arafat's hand?
Some people do not view the world as the West does. One can no more impose an alien and unwanted form of government on a people than one can impose one's values on a people. In fact, the latter is much more difficult.
We cannot assume that Iran bargains in good faith. We must assume, in light of Iran's actions to this point, that Iran is a bad faith negotiator. It is pointless to engage someone who is acting in bad faith.
It is time to make a decision: allow the Iranian regime to acquire nuclear weapons; or stop them from acquiring nuclear weapons. And toothless diplomacy has already failed.