Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:45:19 PM
Iran has spent the last two years demanding unconditional, direct talks
between themselves and the US before negotiating on their pursuit of
nuclear power/weapons. Now that the US has elected a President who
agreed to those terms, Tehran has changed its mind. Now they claim that the differences between the two nations are too great for unconditional talks
Thus dies another Bush Derangement Syndrome fallacy. Critics of the
current administration here and abroad blamed Bush for not having
normal relations with the Iranians. In truth, the Europeans didn’t —
and don’t — want the US to have direct negotiations with the Iranians
yet, because it would reduce the leverage they have on Iran as trading
partners. The Iranians never wanted direct talks; they hate the US and Israel and aren’t interested in being buddies.
This is the point that Obama and his allies never seem to
understand. Some people just hate us, and not because of our policies
on trade and security. Iran is a nation run by radical Islamist
mullahs who see secular democracy as the enemy of their religion, and
Western values as a temporary heresy which they plan to correct with a
global caliphate under Iranian control.
Irans’ mullahs see America as the bastion of these values, and
Israel as our outpost for them in the region. Europe is mostly
irrelevant to them; they can deal with Europe after eliminating the
arsenal of democracy, or hobbling it so badly that we no longer make a
difference. That’s why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad holds symposiums on a world without the US and Israel.
Addendum: The Iranians also claimed that they tested a long-range missile yesterday, but apparently no one else saw it
A two-stage rocket launch is hardly a secret, especially with American
satellite technology. If no one can confirm it, it probably didn’t
happen.