The West’s ‘Rational Iran’ Fest!
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| Today's Parable: Do nothin' now, pay big-time later! |
We’ve been treated lately to an Iran-rationality fest. In February it was U.S. chief of staff Martin Dempsey saying Iran’s government was a “rational actor.”The New York Times, (who else!) one could say, ate it up. A day after Diskin’s pronouncements, it ran a piece called “Experts Believe Iran Conflict Is Less Likely,”claiming that the “threat of tighter economic sanctions,” the “revival of direct negotiations,” had led “American officials and outside analysts” to believe that the “chances of war in the near future have significantly decreased.”
(Meanwhile, back in the real world...) The problem with the Iran-rationality fest is that Iran refuses to join in. This week Iran’s English-language Fars News Agency website—regularly scoured by Western Iran-observers—has run a report rather brazenly titled “Iranian Navy Able to Deploy Vessels Three Miles off New York Coasts.” Then on Friday, the IRGC Aerospace Commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said the Islamic republic’s military is also capable of crippling or disabling US aircraft carriers.
“First, sinking an aircraft carrier is not a complicated task,” Hajizadeh said. “Second, an aircraft carrier is equipped with so many advanced, delicate, and sensitive devices…that it could be incapacitated by even the smallest explosion.”
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| It's not an ELEPHANT and this is certainly NOT a room! |
These are unpleasant words at a time when such nice things are being said about Iran, as the world powers gear up for the second round of nuclear talks with the mullahs in Baghdad on May 23. After the first round in Istanbul on April 14, EU foreign policy chief *Catherine Ashton glowingly foresaw “a comprehensive negotiated solution which restores international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program.”
*(She is one especially stupid tart on a tray of peace-in-our-time delude-niks).One is essentially dealing with the same West that Hitler dealt with in the 1930s—just as weak-kneed, delusive, and eager to be duped. (C) P. David Hornik. (My Italics). (Cartoons:iranpoliticsclub)
