IRAN, THE U.N., THE E.U.

(sigh)

When I read A.P. reports with quotes like this, I laugh:

"The United States said on Friday it was consulting European governments about possible sanctions against the Islamic Republic [Iran], but the EU has signaled it wants more dialogue and has agreed to try to clarify Iran's stance within two weeks."

or this:

"European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana will meet Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, next week to try to clear up ambiguities in Tehran's reply to the major powers' offer of broad cooperation if it stops the nuclear work."

"More dialogue"? This is what politicians refer to as "diplomacy." Well, let us search for a dialogue while Iran snickers and continues its work on uranium enrichment.

"Ambiguities?" Yeah, right. I saw nothing ambiguous about Iran's total failure to meet the U.N. Security deadline on 8/31 to halt uranium enrichment. The threat of sanctions is meaningless to Iran. They are flush with petrodollars and could care less what the United States or the U.N. thinks. They are on a mission. What worries me is that it's just a matter of time before Iran and North Korea both have nuclear capability to threaten most of the free world, and the heads of state in both those countries are insane. We'd better be thinking outside the box here and leaving the "dialogue" to those wimps in the E.U. and the U.N. while we work diligently to save the world from catastrophe.

God, I hope Washington knows more than they're telling us and that they have a "PLAN"!!!

(sigh)