At the risk of sounding offensively familiar, it’s actually kind of cute when Claudia gets all rhetorical and diplomatic.

Why indeed?

Well, I know why I divert people’s attention from things they might object to … particularly if I am trying to save a friend some difficulty.

But the people in DC and at the UN will tell us that they have nothing but the wisest and most humane of reasons for ignoring the subject … at the same time that they will insist that they are not ignoring the subject … while informing us that there is no subject to ignore.

While we’re on the subject, I get it that the UN is largely incoherent, except insofar as transfers of cash are concerned.

But does anybody have any idea at all of what Obama’s intentions are with respect to Persia?

Does he even have any specific intentions, or is he just extemporizing while he attends to other things?

I can’t see any sense in it at all, unless he is actually trying to help the mullahs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090831/wl_time/08599191934200/print

As always, Claudia, you are spot on.

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The Point is the USA is the worlds largest arms dealer, selling to anyone and everyone that has the money, including “terrorist” nations when it suits USA political atmosphere.

It is intellectually dishonest to state N Korea is violating weapons bans when every Nation with weapon industry violates weapons ban every day.

1) tu Quoque, with a nifty little moral equivalence twist.

2) It is against the law in the US to do so, and those caught are generally fined or otherwise punished.

3) The UN has singled out Iran, and mandated that they not receive such arms shipments. Surely you aren’t advocating violating a UN mandate, right?

Hahahaha! You are hilarious. ‘every Nation with a weapon industry violates weapons ban every day.’

Hmmm, you think maybe there exists some international body, a United Nations of some sort, that perhaps wildly ineffectual in most areas might pass resolutions to restrict trading of specific goods of certain governments. And yet there might be other countries not subject to these restrictions because no sanction has been passed against them?

But I guess this ‘United Nations’ which might have a ‘Security Council’ which could have passed a ‘Resololution’ apparently doesn’t exist in your universe, so sorry for wasting your time. Good is oblique; success is racist; up is grapefruit.

http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/u_s_weapons_war_2008_0

More information for review. The US Arms industry tends to destabalize the region, then reap billions in profits from selling arms to whichever side wants them. If they dont have the money we loan it to them. N Korea was doing what everyone else does on daily basis, We taught them how.

Obama feels comfortable doing deals with “bosses” and thugs.

Moreover, we must entertain the possibility that early on in his career, Obama entered into an explicit deal with Saudi Arabia, perhaps in return for college funding and organizational support.

Many such political deals are done on a wink and a nudge, but Saudi Arabia would probably have insisted that the young student put his “commitment” in writing. This and a long history of active “support” may account for the strange Obama bow to the king of Saudi Arabia.

The Point is the USA is the worlds largest arms dealer, selling to anyone and everyone that has the money, including “terrorist” nations when it suits USA political atmosphere.

It is intellectually dishonest to state N Korea is violating weapons bans when every Nation with weapon industry violates weapons ban every day.