The Bolshevik idiots at the NYT continue to fail to comprehend that Iran and the DPRK are two completely different situations. Plainly, the DPRK is running a garden variety extortion scam on the west trolling for a fat aid package. "Dear leader" knows we have no intentions of attacking the DPRK because the DPRK, as long as it stays north of the 38th parallel, is of scant interest to the US. A vexing annoyance for sure, but nothing to take military action over. The DPRK know this too. This is why their rhetoric is always so over the top saying dumb shit like the US is a "nation of cannibals". Seriously, the DPRK statements are a source of pure comedic gold.
Iran's leadership OTOH, is "real deal" weapons grade crazy. They don't have any particular need to extort the west for fat aid packages because they have oil. They have no particular motivation to "negotiate" about their nuclear aims because Iran has more than enough domestic uranium reserves to do pretty much whatever it wants regarding nuclear power and weapons using those same domestic resources.
So what can the west possibly offer Iran in "negotiations" as "real rewards for good behavior"? Their mindspace is different from the wests. They want to erase Israel, nominally for the usual tired old "arab street" reasons, but really because they want to be the major power in the region now that Saddam is in the klink. They see erasing Israel as a way to greatly enhanced prestige within the middle east and Islamic world. They're just too damn crazy to realize that path is a suicide pact though.
So, the DPRK isn't "crazy" per se, rather crazy like a fox looking to raid the west's aid chicken coop. Iranian leadership however is truly crazy, and as such not inclined to serious "negotiation" anymore than Hitler was with all his bogus "non-aggression pacts".
NYT
...The only approach with even the remotest chance of success is to persuade these regimes that they do not need nuclear weapons to ensure their survival, and that there will be real rewards for good behavior...
1 comment:
you don't mind people calling for the genocide of a religious group as long as they don't do anything about it.
Yep, free speech and all that. If someone wants to fantasize about elimination of whoever and takes no actions towards that end, well who am I to wreck their little fantasy world?
you are a hypocritical asshat who doesn't mind when Muslims are the target
As far as I can tell, Muslims are the only ones acting on their desires for eradication of someone else at the moment. When some agent of state (as opposed to some blogger) call for the destruction of another country, why should I not take them at their word?
anybody who believes without a shred of evidence that Chavez is a drug overlord clearly has plenty of mental problems.
FARC has long been implicated in the drug trade, and Chavez is clearly giving FARC geographic cover and logistical aid. That you can deny this pretty much demonstrates where your headspace is at.
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