Source: Reuters
Dec. 16, 2007
Once again Irans president Mahmoud Ahmademonjihad opens his big fat mouth. He said on Sunday "the publication of a U.S. intelligence report saying Iran had halted a nuclear weapons program in 2003 amounted to a "declaration of surrender" by Washington in its row with Tehran.
When will the rest of the world start to take this guy serious when he says things like
"We will wipe Israel off the map".
Now, after this latest statement is there any doubt that Ahmadinejad is not dealing with a full deck of cards. Were going to dick around and do nothing and this fool is attempting to facilitate the return of the 12th Imam.
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It disappoints me to see that no one has touched upon two other possibilities for Ahmadinejad's proclamation.
When you are squaring off with an opponent and don't really want to fight or if you have been fighting but no longer want to continue the fight one way to back out of it is to declare yourself the winner, in effect what WI Crippler said.
Remember in the 2005 Israeli/Hezbollah War when Hezbollah got their asses kicked but declared themselves the victor? Typical posturing when you want to stop fighting and save face. Also, typical Jihadist tactic to declare victory even upon a defeat.
Though this isn't or wasn't an eyeball to eyeball confrontation, if it had been, Ahmadinejad would have been said to have blinked first. And sanity and peace would have been the victor.
So maybe he is waving the "White Flag."
Or, the second possibility is that maybe he just wants us to
think he is.
He MIGHT be trying to give the anti-war effort ammo to use toward persuading the UN and Western governments around the world, particularly the US, a reason to drop any plans for attacking Iran's nuclear facilities. And by the same token, if we are no longer looking as critically at Iran's nuclear progress they might be able to make more progress and maybe catch the West napping.
And Middle Eastern expert, Daniel Pipes, says that the NIE has effectively announced the end of our sanctions program.
The 2007 NIE has effectively terminated Option #1, convincing the Iranians themselves to halt their nuclear program, because this route requires wide external agreement. When key countries banded together to pass Security Council Resolution 1737 in December 2006, it caused the Iranian leadership to respond with caution and fear; but the NIE's soothing conclusion undercuts such widespread cooperation and pressure. When Washington pressures some Western states, Russia, China, and the IAEA, they can pull it out of the drawer, wave it in the Americans' faces, and refuse to cooperate. Worse, the NIE has sent a signal to the apocalyptic-minded leadership in Tehran that the danger of external sanctions has ended, that it can go undisturbed about its bomb-building business.
But Pipes concludes that despite Iran's pronouncements for the world's press the NIE report has seriously undermined the intended purpose of the dimwitted (undoubtedly liberal) bureaucraps who prepared and released it.
In short, with Option #1 undermined and Option #3 unacceptable, Option #2 – war carried out by either U.S. or Israeli forces – becomes the more probable. Thus have short-sighted, small-minded, blatantly partisan intelligence bureaucrats, trying to hide unpleasant realities, helped engineer their own nightmare.
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