Squeal Like an (Infidel) Pig
September 29th, 2009 - 10:49 am
Obama — willing to meet Iran’s vicious thugs “without preconditions.”
Iran’s vicious thugs — unwilling to return the favor. Read:
Iran has said it is not willing to discuss its “nuclear rights” during an upcoming meeting with the five permanent UN Security Council members.
The head of the country’s atomic energy body also ruled out a suspension of Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme.
But Ali Akbar Salehi said he would set out when and how inspectors could view Iran’s second uranium enrichment plant.
This is what you get when you practically beg dictators to come negotiate.
The deadline on that pledge to meet with the five tyrants is approaching fast. You’d think someone with a show called “Countdown” would take note.
Okay, I don’t know if the thought police have outlawed positive discussion of his legacy yet, but your title has a certain “Greaseman” riff about it.
I think I hear a banjo.
Of course this all depends on how the talks go to give his Chicago buds their payback in getting the Olympics to Chicago.
Meanwhile, Russia is counting its money from arms sales to Iran and China is looking forward to sweetheart oil deals.
Obama can only look for a little relief if he bends way…over and brings a lot of lub.
“Only one time in 70 days?”
Papa Ray
This is why it isn’t the end of the world for Obama to be willing to talk with Iran: Iran will still be Iran. Obama does set himself up to be snubbed, but that’s a bad thing how, exactly? Now that it’s not an aggressive, expansionist, or whateverist (to use Iran’s stupid jingoistic nonsense propaganda terms) United States being arrogantly unwilling to talk with Iran, it’s Iran that’s afraid to meet and discuss things with the President of the United States.
Not that that accomplishes much more than the Bush Administration did, but it isn’t costing us much if anything.
Obama does set himself up to be snubbed, but that’s a bad thing how, exactly?
It makes them look strong.
Some tinpot, mad-mullahs are flipping the finger to the President of the United States.
It makes us look weak.
As Ronnie Raygun said, “America never got in a war because it was too strong”.
Lots of countries have gotten into wars because they looked weak though.
That’s a lesson we learned thousands of years ago and have to relearn every now and then.
It’s always a painful and expensive lesson.
We look weak? Does Iran have no idea what we did to Afghanistan? No idea what happened to Iraq? They want to lose their air defenses in the first ten minutes against us just as much as the Iraqis did. They want to lose their armored vehicles in the first hours of use just as much as the Iraqis did. They really want to send their planes to Syria, but probably would have to send them to Russia instead of having them turned into scrap bits of aluminum and rubber stains. Yeah, we look so weak now that Obama’s in charge. We’re probably in better shape than ever to take out Iran, Iran knows it, and Iran also knows we’re not interested in another occupation/liberation project at the moment. But they don’t think we’re weak, they’d rather we be completely disinterested.
And it doesn’t make them look strong to stand up to America. I’m sure everyone lists Cuba as the Number One Strongman He-Man Nation after North Korea. No, we are aware of how little they regard their people, how little they care about decency, and how how craven their sycophants are. We don’t treat them as equals, but as crazy people to be pitied for their feckless anger. They’re not truly crazy, just acting out to keep their neighbors from thinking they’re weak. We’re above their crazy games, not stuck in them. We get to be aloof, civilized, and content in the knowledge that we can blast them into smithereens any time we get frustrated. They’re like a crazy guy wearing a wifebeater on Cops and we hold a gun and a taser and we also have the patience to wait to see if they’re just all talk and need to be left alone or are truly a danger to themselves and others. Yeah, we need to hang out in their living room for a bit, but we don’t need to shoot them in the face just yet. We’re just calmly talking, they’re yelling something about the neighbors, and the place is starting to smell like meth, but it hasn’t been confirmed just yet. We have time.
“I think I hear a banjo.”
Dang, I went for the derived cultural reference and forgot to go back to the original material…