March 29, 2007
10 of 10 for good thinking
If you were the leader of a pariah nation facing extraordinary pressure from the UN to drop your nuclear weapons program, under a complete US trade embargo, and sitting next to the devolving mess that is Iraq and wanting nothing better than to dissolve the increasingly shaky US/UK alliance, what would your best move be?
Why kidnapping 15 British marines of course! That'll certainly make Britain realize you're no threat to them. And of course, you'd demand that Britain apologize for invading Iranian territorial waters, regardless of whether or not that happened. Threatening to "try" the sailors in an Iranian court would be another great move.
Still further evidence that the people in charge of Iran have the maturity of 13-year-olds. Refresh my memory: exactly why are we supposed to take these people seriously, let alone treat them as equals on the world stage?
Oh, yeah. That's right. They're raving madmen hell-bent on building nukes.
Ryan, it's good to see you still don't pull your punches.
Posted by: Dave at March 29, 2007 09:18 AMWell somebody had to say it...
Posted by: ryan at March 29, 2007 09:38 AMIt's a bit easier to understand when you consider the quasi-cartoonish foreign policy of the United States in which we attack foreign governments that have no nukes, but do nothing to foreign governments that have nukes. We can thank our leaders for providing every other nation on earth with all the incentive in the world to develop nukes. We've told them loud and clear, time after time, that if they develop the most destructive weapon on earth, and then adopt an aggressive stance, then we'll leave them alone. But don't dare mind your own business and ignore us, or we'll change your regime for you. Talk about insanity.
Posted by: Ben at March 29, 2007 03:42 PMAnother way to look at is to point out that we went into Iraq simply becaouse we thought they had nukes (or something similar). In light of that, one has to wonder why anyone would think we wouldn't go after a country when we know they're working on them.
That doesn't sound particularly insane to me.
What does sound insane is the idea of asking Iran to help out with the mire in Iraq. I think that one came from the Iraq Study Group, and I'm pretty sure I've heard at least some scattered support from the dems. That one's solid gold.
Posted by: Dave at March 30, 2007 08:26 AMWhat struck me as bizarre about this whole situation is that Iran is in a rather delicate position and keeps doing rather indelicate things. I mean, are you asking to get nuked?
Thing is, they might be...
Posted by: ryan at March 30, 2007 08:49 AM