Thursday, January 03, 2008

Can't Risk that Moderate Level of Confidence

Our intelligence agencies are pretty sure that Iran stopped their narrowly defined military nuclear programs in 2003. They have only moderate confidence that they haven't been restarted since. Yet our media and permanent foreign policy elites have concluded that Iran is not a threat.

So Iran's Supreme Leader makes an interesting admission when he declines to want ties with America:

Khamenei said restoring ties with the U.S. now would "provide opportunity for security agents to come and go, as well as for espionage."

"It has no benefit for Iranian nation," state radio quoted him as saying at a student group meeting in the central province of Yazd. It would be an "opportunity for U.S. infiltration, traffic of their intelligence agents and espionage of Iran."


People often ask why we are "afraid" to talk to enemies. Will anybody ask this about Iran?

No. Because we know why Iran doesn't want open relations with America. They can't have an inconvenient truth exposed that Iran is still hell bent on getting nukes, now can they?

People in the West are devoting their lives to worrying about carbon footprints when all I really care about are plutonium footprints. Silly me.

But perhaps Ahmadinejad will buy nice carbon offsets to make up for detonating a low-yield nuke or two. Then it will be planet friendly!