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Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Groundhog Day

Our European friends want to start a new round of negotiations with Iran over their nuclear weapons program. Our Europeans-at-heart in the White House will no doubt go along.

A slight problem is that the Iranians deny they are working on nuclear weapons.

Not to worry, the negotiations have a way to go before we get into the nitty gritty of stopping an Iranian nuclear weapons program. No, we have to take baby steps of "building confidence:"

Top international Iran negotiator Catherine Ashton has written to Iran proposing new talks on its nuclear program as soon as possible. But Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief, stresses in her letter to Iran's Saeed Jalili, the talks should initially focus on a confidence-building measure.

I'm confident that the Iranians won't do anything to build confidence in their ability to negotiate since the Iranians deny doing anything wrong and insist that negotiations are only useful to get us to accept what they are doing.

On the bright side, we won't have to keep on going through the charade of this approach to Iran forever. Iran will go nuclear and then they won't even bother to talk to us at all.