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October 4, 2004
Reality Test vs Global Test
Oops, Senator, I guess you should have checked with the mullahs before you made your bonehead proposal the other night.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Sunday rebuffed a proposal by U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) who has suggested supplying the Islamic state with nuclear fuel for power reactors if Tehran agrees to give up its own fuel-making capability.The senator, it will be recalled, had said in the debate with President Bush that he would supply nuclear fuel to Iran. This as in incentive for good behavior, if you're scratching your heard.
Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said it would be "irrational" for Iran to put its nuclear program in jeopardy by relying on supplies from abroad.
"We have the technology (to make nuclear fuel) and there is no need for us to beg from others," Asefi told a weekly news conference.
With respect to Iran, the British, French, and Germans were the ones who initiated an effort without the United States, regrettably, to begin to try to move to curb the nuclear possibilities in Iran. I believe we could have done better.
I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide the nuclear fuel, test them, see whether or not they were actually looking for it for peaceful purposes. If they weren't willing to work a deal, then we could have put sanctions together.
Giving nuclear anything to the mad mullahs is somewhat akin to giving matches to a pyromaniac.
You would think that if someone makes such a proposal, most of all someone running for president of the United States, he would think to subject it to a reality test (as distinguished from the "global test" that he thinks so important).
But of course the good senator didn't have to make sense during the debate. He only needed to sound good to impress the liberal media and, evidently, some of the undecided voters. Style over substance. As long as no one really pays attention to what he is actually saying, he can seem presidential.
Posted by Tom at October 4, 2004 10:33 PM
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