Our Secretary of State's ignorance of Islam and the mindset it engenders, even among "pot-hole fixers" like the former mayor of Tehran, seems to allow her to believe in a "peaceful solution" to the Iranian nuclear build-up. From AP:
ATHENS, Greece Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dismissed new threats from Iran over the future of its disputed nuclear program on Tuesday, but won no public pledge of support from ally Greece for punitive sanctions again Tehran.Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Tuesday that Iran will withdraw its cooperation from the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency if faced with U.N. sanctions and will be forced to hide its nuclear program if the West takes "harsh measures" against it.
A day earlier, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had warned that Iran could pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if the international standoff escalates.
"What Iran's statements do is further Iran's isolation from the international community," Rice said, adding that the Iranian people "deserve better then they are currently seeing from their government."
Rice said the next step in the international effort to counter Iranian nuclear ambitions is not certain...
"What Iran's statements do is further Iran's isolation from the international community..."
Now they went and done it!
I'll bet they are shaking in their boots this time!
"ally Greece.."
-- from the article
How about just "Greece"?
Where does she come up with this stuff? She ought to lay off the mind-altering stuff during hours.
Either that, or this is a prime example of the old "Peter principle"... being promoted or rising to one's highest level of incompetence.
Sorry about that! Meant to say - working hours.
Americans tend to overestimate the extent of genuine, prejudicial anti-Americanism in Europe; but Greece is unfortunately thick with it. As long as this nation continues to self-indulgently imagine itself as an oppressed Third World community and identify with all sort of dusty "damned of the earth" daydreams from the Sixties, it will never be a decent European or NATO member. Hugh complains about French "deux-rivistes" and their imagined Mediterranean community; but the version of that which most Greeks drink with their daily coffee is much more potent, being mixed with a monumental inferiority complex, resentment, and unconscious influence from that very ideology of oppression and slavery from which they once struggled free at such a terrifying price. Of all countries in Europe, excluded perhaps Sweden, Greece is the one that disappoints me most.
Rice said the next step in the international effort to counter Iranian nuclear ambitions is not certain...
Not certain = feeling real hinky on whether a miracle will occur and those whacky Persian Moslems will show civilized restraint during those moments of moment of clarity when they're not reciting from the feral Koran.
Moslems with nukes. It's like a 7-year old haid case brat with a loaded 9mm running around the house screaming.
No wonder Condi is kidding herself. She's not uncertain, she knows what's coming. She just doesn't have the heart to let her Marxists fans (i.e., Democrats and RINOs) in on this horrible little "secret."
Thus says Iran:
Criticise us for deception, and we'll practice more deception.
Iran Warns It Might Hide Its Nukes
Rice might be a knowledgeable historian, but she is still quite naive. I wonder how she manages that?
She is no Margaret Thatcher, that's for sure.
Rice might be a knowledgeable historian, but she is still quite naive. I wonder how she manages that?
She is no Margaret Thatcher, that's for sure.
Posted by: Foehammer
To be fair to her, she doesn't make policy.
Greece is a statutory ally and one that fought in the side of the the US in more conflicts than the average statutory ally so it is accurate to call it "ally Greece."
I donlt udnerstand Paolos comments, Greece is doing very well if one simply considers where it was 50 years ago, or 25 years ago and where it is today. It is quite simply the most improved country in all of the EU.
Out of my 13 years in Europe I lived and worked in Greece just under a year. "Prejudicial anti-Americanism" there is definately overestimated. I would say France, Germany, Spain, Italy are way more AntiAmerican. At core values I found Greeks to be much closer to American values than elsewhwere in Europe. I would not confuse the actions of anti-globalization, anti everything, street demonstrators with "Antiamericanism" in any country unless one is willing to go to a world bank protest in Washington, DC and come to the conclusion that Americans are the most rabid Antiamericans on the planet.
Greeks tend to be vocal in opposition of specific policies. Contrast that to memes in Germany, France and elsewhere about the pure inerst in limiting American power as the main inerest. Adn don;t even get me started on "new" Europe where "pro-Americanism" is a very hin a veneer over some serious divergence on core values.
"Rice might be a knowledgeable historian..."
-- from a posting above
On what basis has this story been bruited about?
To be fair to her, [Condi] doesn't make policy.
True. But to be fair to us, if she is a knowledgeable historian, unlikely looking at the nation's campuses, then she must resign and become an anti-Dhimmi advocate for adhering to the Constitution and saving freedom from the onslaught.
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To be fair to her, she doesn't make policy.
True. But to be fair to us, if she is a knowledgeable historian, which is unlikely looking at the nation's campuses, then she must resign and become an anti-Dhimmi advocate for adhering to the Constitution and saving freedom from the onslaught.
MO HIJABS MO LEFT JABS MO BACK-STABS MO SOMALI CABS MO MO ALWAYS MO MO
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Say, wasn't Condi the one who issue a dictum at the height of the Cartoon Crisis prohibiting free speech in matters Islam?
FrankLev: what Greece are you talking about? Me, I meant the one who was the only NATO country to recognize the PLO as a sovereign government since the seventies; where the visit of every Western dignitary is welcomed by savage street demos; where a fistful of terrorists were allowed to go on murdering Britons and Americans for a quarter of a century thanks to highly placed protection in PASOK and the Orthodox Church, and were only "found" and jailed when the imminence of the Athens Olympics made domestic security an international issue. That Greece.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleeza_Rice#Academic_career