While all of the press coverage these days is about the "realists" and the pretty rose colored sky that they have in their world, other parts of the world haven't exactly improved. Washington politicians and inside the beltway insiders may be enthralled with the ISG report , Iran still perks along with its accelerating nuclear program. And Mad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smells defeat – for the West.
Iran has begun installing 3,000 centrifuges in an expansion of its uranium enrichment program that brings the Islamic nation significantly closer to large-scale production of nuclear fuel, the president said Saturday.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also claimed that the international community was caving in to Tehran's demands to continue its nuclear program.
"Resistance of the Iranian nation in the past year forced them to retreat tens of steps over the Iran's nuclear issue," the semi-official Fars agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. Fars is considered to be close to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
Iran has been locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program. The U.S. alleges that Tehran is secretly trying to develop atomic weapons, but Iran contends its program is for peaceful purposes including generating electricity.
The West is losing ground here, Mahmoud's quite correct. And since the Baker boys want us to just sit down with them and reward them for all the bad behavior they have been engaging in, the West's backward slide is speeding up. This is the real problem with rewarding terrorism – it leads to a whole new – and likely much worse – set of issues that will need to be dealt with at an even higher cost in the future. The "realist" are only good at one thing: pushing today's problems on to people in the future to deal with. That past practice by these same committee members is pretty much exactly why we are at the point we are right now.
That really was not a path to success the first time they tried it. Why would it work better this time?
