Talk To Iran?

James Baker and his pals on the Iraq Study Group recommended that the US negotiate with Iran. And put pressure on Israel. Which solves nothing but does embolden Iran. Their president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just proved that rather openly. He called for Israel to be "wiped out".

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday told delegates at an international conference questioning the Holocaust that Israel's days were numbered.

Ahmadinejad, who has sparked international outcry by referring to the killing of six million Jews in World War Two as a "myth" and calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map", launched another verbal attack on the Jewish state.

"Thanks to people's wishes and God's will the trend for the existence of the Zionist regime is downwards and this is what God has promised and what all nations want," he said.

"Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out," he added.

His words received warm applause from delegates at the Holocaust conference, who included ultra-Orthodox anti-Israel Jews and European and American writers who argue the Holocaust was either fabricated or exaggerated.

Maybe the world will get lucky and Ahmadinejad will just keep his guests. They deserve one another.