Serious Negotiations Now Friendly Chat

posted at 3:03 pm on September 13, 2009 by Track-A-'Crat

Oh deary me.

Less than 48 hours after President Obama decided to reward Tehran for its complete and utter obstinacy, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – the man with such intimate knowledge of his own country that he even knows that not a single homosexual resides there – has now decided that the bi-lateral negotiations are not going to cover the nuclear issue, after all.

Well, who would want to talk about such a trifling issue, really?

This is precisely why negotiations without preconditions were not offered previously, and can only come as a surprise to those who are willfully blind as to the nature and history of the Iranian theocracy.  For everyone else (read: all those not affiliated with the Democratic Party in any way whatsoever), this is nothing but another step on the path towards the imminent Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons.

How our leaders are still duped by Iran’s time-honed strategy of offer-and-rescind is beneath my ability to explain.

The consequences, however, are far more easily elucidated: Iran gains a propaganda victory through making it appear that the Great Satan has capitulated; having already agreed to negotiations in principle, the Obama administration may still go through with them in a futile attempt to salvage whatever scraps of face remain after such a swift slap round the chops; and, most importantly for the mullahs, they gain yet more crucial time to dedicate to their weaponization schemes.

There are no easy choices and few good outcomes on this issue, but the worst by far remains Iranian possession of nukes.  At least with North Korea we have a somewhat compliant China (mostly) helping to keep the Dear Leader within the confines of his playpen, but who could fulfill a similar role with regard to Iran?

The Bush administration’s strategy veered schizophrenically from John Bolton’s singleminded determination to prevent Iran from obtaining nukes to eventually settling for merely slowing down their development horizon.  The Obama administration’s strategy, from what I can gather, consists almost entirely of talking nicely to an abhorrent collection of misogynists, bigots, racists and anti-Semites, and hoping for the best.

The complacency is stunning.  Time is running out to do anything substantive and if President Obama’s brainwave is to simply run down the clock and shrug his shoulders in resignation once the theocracy has turned the nightmare into reality, then he’s doing a bang-up job.

Otherwise, serious thinking caps (if not military helmets) need to go on right now.

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