Ahmadinjad touts western cooperation

Contrary to what the west has been telling us they’re doing, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad bragged to a crowd today that the west is now helping Iran develop their nuclear program according to the Associated Press/Fox News Channel;

“Today we reached a very important point,” Ahmadinejad said, speaking at a rally in the northeastern city of Mashhad. “Ground has been paved for nuclear cooperation” and Tehran is ready to now work on nuclear fuel supplies and technical know-how with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Ahmadinejad added.

But he insisted his government “will not retreat even an iota” over the nation’s right to pursue a nuclear program — which the West fears masks a nuclear arms ambition.

Well, I can see how he might get the idea since everything the West tries to do, Ahmadinejad simply rejects. Even the Washington Post has noticed a dangerous trend in the Obama Administration’s negotiating style;

Many of us worry that, for Obama, engagement is an end in itself, not a means to an end. We worry that every time Iran rejects one proposal, the president will simply resume negotiations on another proposal and that this will continue right up until the day Iran finally tests its first nuclear weapon, at which point the president will simply begin negotiations again to try to persuade Iran to put its nuclear genie back in the bottle.

Russia, meanwhile, will continue to be accommodated as a partner in this effort, on the perpetually untested theory that if Obama ever did decide to get tough with Iran, Moscow would join in. Russia thus reaps all the rewards of engagement without ever having to make a difficult decision.

I guess all we can do is sit around and wait for that first nuclear test in the Iranian desert while the Obama Administration twiddles it’s stupid thumbs.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, Terror War