(hat tip: Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler)
One of these days, the Europeans are going to learn.
Ahhh, who an I kiddin'? They're going to be 'as long as the gator eats me last' appeasers until the end of time. They spent months last year trying to appease convince Iran to stop its nuke program, and the Iranians have now told them to take a hike. Worse, the Iranians are openly bragging about the fact that the 'talks' with the EUrocrats gave them time to finish their uranium enrichment plant. Next stop: A-bomb! According to the Daily Telegraph's Colin Freeman:
An Iranian foreign policy official has boasted that the regime bought extra time over its stalled negotiations with Europe to complete a uranium conversion plant.
In comments that will infuriate EU diplomats, Hosein Musavian said that Teheran took advantage of the nine months of talks, which collapsed last week, to finish work at its Isfahan enrichment facility.
The IAEA is considering referring the matter to the Security Council (like that'll do any good), but it really doesn't do much good to shut the barn door once the horse has bolted:
Today, we are in a position of power," Mr Musavian said. "Isfahan is complete and has a stockpile of products." Mr Musavian also said that Iran had further benefited from sweeteners offered by the EU, including the invitation to enter talks on Iran joining the World Trade Organisation.
Oh, and just so you know, Germany has warned us NOT to try military action to keep the ayatollahs from building a Bomb. The BBC reports:
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has warned the US to back away from the possibility of military action against Iran over its nuclear programme.
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Mr Schroeder reiterates his views in an interview to be published Sunday in the German weekly Bild am Sonntag, labelling military action "extremely dangerous".
"This is why I can with certainty exclude any participation by the German government under my direction," Mr Schroeder tells the paper.
Has anybody asked him just what he plans to do if the Iranians continue to work on a Bomb? I mean, the Euros have said 'pretty please with sugar on top', but it hasn't worked. Now what?
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