Mullah This

Please join me in a collective gasp as the news that Iran is producing the gases necessary to enrich weapons grade uranium sinks in. How could this be? I thought Europe was on the case. Haven't we been listening to international lecturing about the value of sweet talk and detente for 20 years? Funny, but that's about how long its taken Iran to get to the front door of the Nuclear Weapon Clubhouse. And now its just a matter of weeks before they learn the secret handshake.

There aren't enough megabits of memory in the world to hold all the blogs that would be necessary to catalogue the failures of international diplomatic solutions. We don't stop street crime by inviting the criminals to sit down with their neighbors to find out what the misunderstanding is. We simply stop the criminals. If you think people cannot be compared to nation states...you are deluded. There are small matters that diplomacy is very well suited to handle. But it is naivete of the highest order to not recognize the many arenas in which diplomacy is powerless.

The Europeans may as well have built the weapons for the Iranians and hand delivered them with a few billion of left over Oil for Food money. For that is the exact result of their diplomacy. The rogue nations love the talk because it provides the time necessary to accomplish their goals. While the Europeans signed and copied and collated, scheduled and rescheduled; the Mullahs built weapons. The diplomats are dupes who failed in Iran, failed in Iraq, and will fail again wherever they are given the opportunity to make deals with the power hungry.

When the world is peaceful, certainly, let the diplomats chatter to their heart's content. But when the times becomes serious, best send them to bed so the adults can put things right. Enough talk.