How’s The Iran Plan Going?
More than two millennia ago a guy wrote a story about the unintended consequences of lying to people.
The IAEA inspectors reported back to the Security Council that they don’t know if Iran wants to build nuclear weapons. The Shrubbery said that if you can’t prove that Iran is not building weapons, then it’s obvious that they are and we must impose sanctions on Iran. The Europeans and the Russians aren’t buying it.
What bothers the Europeans and Russians is the fact that the Iranians are saying: You want sanctions? Well, we can impose our own sanctions by reducing our oil exports by a third. Because of the spike in oil prices, the reduction in output won’t affect the Iranian budget, but the loss of that much oil could double the price of a barrel of crude.
It was interesting to listen to the Robert Siegel piece, Negroponte Hopes to Prevent Intel ‘Fiasco’ :
Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte says he hopes that U.S. attempts to gather intelligence on Iran’s nuclear weapons program are productive — and accurate.
Someone must have warned Negroponte about the job Siegel did on Michael Chertoff after Katrina, letting Chertoff tell the world that there was no one at the New Orleans Convention Center while John Burnett was on the other phone reporting from the Convention Center. How nasty can those NPR reporters get – live fact-checking of government spokesweasels? It would never happen at Faux.
Negroponte also said he didn’t play Colonel Klink and Chertoff swore he never modeled for Edvard Munch. [You must include gratuitous snark on the weekend.]
5 comments
You? snark? Nah…I don’t believe it! 😉
It was late; Sox was sleeping on my feet cutting off blood flow; and I was looking up obscure references to people in movies for my Mother.
Oh, yeah, I really hate these people what what they have done to the country and the world.
Shrub and his crew have only just begun! Luckily for Iran, they can twist the sanctions around. Those other countries have to think twice before blindly following shrub’s lead.
I like your links for the guy and the story, too. That is for sure!
OWL, I hope we don’t have a “wolf” show up anytime soon, because the “villagers” aren’t going to show up.