And now Iran's Ahmadinejad is going all anti-hopey in response to our president's very mild criticisms of their crack down on protesters:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Saturday to make the U.S. regret its criticism of Iran's postelection crackdown and said the "mask has been removed" from the Obama administration's efforts to improve relations.
Ahmadinejad — with his internal opponents virtually silenced — all but dared Obama to keep calling for an end to repression of demonstrators who claim the hardline leader stole re-election through massive fraud.
"You should know that if you continue the response of the Iranian nation will be strong," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to members of Iran's judiciary, which is directly controlled by the ruling clerics. "The response of the Iranian nation will be crushing. The response will cause remorse."
Um, yeah ... That's normal. For nutcase countries that hate us and expect to have nuclear weapons soon, that is.
If President Obama would kindly recognize that these two states are on the Axis of Evil for very good reasons notwithstanding the inconvenient fact that President Bush named them as such, we can get on with that smart foreign policy we've heard so much about.
North Korea and Iran under the mullahs are mad dogs, and we need to put them down for the safety of the world. Not a whole lot of nuance is required to understand this basic fact.
