Bungling Nuclear Weapons Negotiations - 10/30/2009

What a mistake to have Obama, an inexperienced amateur, handling nuclear weapons policy.

Bruce

"How can a theocratic government with a stone-age worldview take the most sophisticated, modern, industrialized nation in the world for a ride, as if we just fell off the turnip truck?"

Diplomatic Rubes
Posted 10/30/2009 07:45 PM ET

Iran Nukes: The mullahs ruling Islamofascist Iran are having a fine laugh at the easily beguiled infidels running U.S. foreign policy. First they agree to a nuclear "diplomatic breakthrough." Then they say no.

The week before last, when Iran's negotiators agreed to send most of its enriched uranium out of the country, diplomats in the U.S. and Europe were popping the champagne corks.

But last week Iranian officials backtracked on the agreement reached in Vienna to send three-quarters of its nuclear material to Russia for processing, after which it would be returned. Some 2,600 pounds of uranium was to be shipped by mid-January.

The pact was supposed to give the U.S. a year of extra time to work its negotiating magic on the Islamist terror state, as well as hold off an attack by Israel on Iran's nuclear facilities.

In 1981, out of self defense, the Jewish state successfully used F-16s to bomb Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.

On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a meeting with U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell to endorse, albeit cautiously, the agreement the U.S. thought it had, apparently in an attempt to be seen as part of a united international front opposing Iran rather than a hawkish outsider.

The International Atomic Energy Agency head, Mohamed ElBaradei, with little time left in his tenure, reportedly came secretly to Washington to "talk about what to do" if the deal with Iran failed, several American officials told the New York Times.

Iran now wants to keep its uranium until it gets fuel from the West. And this change of mind comes right after dubiously re-elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared: "We welcome cooperation on nuclear fuel, power plants and technology, and we are ready to cooperate."

While he was at it, Ahmadinejad last Thursday said he expected recompense for the more than $1 billion Iran spent helping build a French reactor under the Shah, and for which Iran was supposed to get access to nuclear fuel.

Even if the Vienna deal had stuck, it makes a mockery of three U.N. Security Council declarations by legitimizing Tehran's violations of the U.N. and allowing this fanatical, terrorist-supporting regime to continue its "peaceful" nuclear program.

The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday gave the go-ahead for stronger sanctions against Iran, following similar action by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and banning most trade with the regime.

How can a theocratic government with a stone-age worldview take the most sophisticated, modern, industrialized nation in the world for a ride, as if we just fell off the turnip truck?

Because those who run Iran realize they are engaged in a global war. Those who now run American foreign policy, on the other hand, think "war on terror" is passe. Peace must be given a chance first, they think. And "yes, we can" make it work, without firing a shot. Hope will triumph.

Sounds nice, doesn't it? But it is the naivete of Neville Chamberlain and the piece of paper he waved bearing Hitler's autograph.