Iran makes Bush look good
Posted by Moonage on 12 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: International Issues, Iran
In fact, Ahmadinejad, who has piled idiocy upon idiocy in a series of offensive remarks that have alarmed the world, has achieved a truly amazing feat. He has made George W. Bush look like a statesman. Since Ahmadinejad has embraced his role as this era€™s Muammar Kaddafi, the Bush administration mustered international unity against Iran of the kind that hasn€™t been seen since right after September 11……..
NEWSWEEK has learned that Washington, with likely support from Britain, France and Germany, has called for an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors for as early as next week. The issue will be whether to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council over Tehran€™s breach of a previous commitment not to enrich. The Americans and Europeans are likely to get a quick meeting despite some balking by Russia and China, which fear an automatic referral. Still, Moscow and Beijing are more aligned with Washington than they have been in the past-all thanks to Ahmadinejad.
And, to top it off, Hirsh even gives Bush exactly the same advice I would:
All this in turn requires a subtle change in tone from Washington. More inflammatory rhetoric will only encourage the hardliners in Tehran, and cow the moderates into silence. And after all the mistakes he€™s made, George Bush simply can€™t afford to talk tough without meaning it. He should leave that to Ahmadinejad.
Ahmadinejad ahs dug Iran into a massive international relations hole. All Bush has to do right now is sit on the sidelines and watch him keep digging. The "Axis of Evil" speech was appropriate at the time, as it warned us what was getting ready to happen. But, it’s time to tone it down and let Ahmadinejad do the talking. The more he talks, the better Bush looks. It’s been a LONG time since the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China have shown a unified front. That unified front will affect a lot more issues than just Iran. What I see being most critical about that unified front is it will keep Israel from attacking Iran.
Of course, no one’s gonna give Bush credit that this might have been a calculated move. I hope it is.
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