Liberal Dogma 101: the enforcement of the law is partly to blame for criminal behavior. It's never the criminal's fault.
"Iran Nuclear: Sanctions Are Not the Answer Says Italian PM," from AKI:
Rome, 6 July (AKI) - Sanctions are part of the problem and not the answer in the international standoff over Iran's nuclear programme, Italian prime minister Romano Prodi on Friday told the online edition of the Hebrew language Israeli newspaper Maariv, Nrg-Maariv. "There is a problem with the attitude towards Iran," Prodi said. "The current strategy is leading us nowhere. Iran is continuing on its path, building up centrifuges every month while time goes by."
Liberal Dogma 102: if the punishment doesn't stop the criminal behavior, you must stop punishing the criminal instead of enforcing a stronger punishment.
The premier said Iran should not restrict UN inspections on its nuclear installations, which Tehran claims are solely for civilian use but stressed that "non-dialogue has a price and the international community will pay the price."
Liberal Dogma 103: talk to the criminal and understand him. If you keep on punishing him, his behavior will only get worse. In short, appease.
Italy is Iran's main trading partner in Europe and commercial relations between the two countries were reportedly worth five billion euros in 2005.
Always keep your eye on the money.
Crossposted from The American Israeli Patriot.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted for the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena a painting (possibly a fresco), in two parts, depicting The Effects of Bad Government and The Effects of Good Government. Of the two, it is Malgoverno rather than Buongoverno that has been the order of the day in Italy, and Romano Prodi, the dullard (he has a brother, a historian, not so dull), has followed the un-dull (a zany laff riot, in fact) but also master of Malgoverno, Berlusconi, of the hair transplant and the villa on Lago di Como and another in Sardinia, where Tony Blair stopped. Not everyone in Italian politics has been an ass. Plump book-collectiing Giovanni Spadolini, of the elegant Republicans, was not. Enrico Berlinguer, though a Communist, was a Communist far more elegant and intelligent than Togliatti, and sometimes accompanied his devout wife to mass. Gianfranco Fini, of Alleanza Nazionale, has severed all ties with the hideous past (causing Mussolini's granddaughter to leave the party in a streetwalker's huff).
Neither Prodi nor any other European leader can call for measures that of course will be necessary -- there is no other way -- and that should be undertaken by Bush. Not an "invasion." Not an attempt to bring "democracy" or to enforce "regime change." Just to delay the date when those weapons become available to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and then at intervals, like booster shots for the Salk vaccine, should the program resume, further intelligent destruction from on high. If the Islamic Republic of Iran were to acquire such weapons, the hysterical pride of the primitives who make up most of that country's population would prevent any change of regime; severe damage to that nuclear project is necessary, and may even be sufficient, to get that regime-change ball rolling.
Liberal Dogma 102: Liberal policies are unsustainable and quickly consume public resources. Globalization causes liberal democracies to have to compete with more efficient economies, who eventually win. Then idealism yields to necessity.
“A Republic, if you can keep it.” – Benjamin Franklin
The American economy in 2007:
6% of us make stuff (includes construction). Probably half of these people run interference with the government.
38% of us provide services (includes government).
4% of us are looking for work.
Half of us just consume.
The trends in June:
Added 30,000 health care providers; primarily funded through Medicaid.
Added 35,000 workers in restaurants and bars.
Added 40,000 government workers.
Professional services were unchanged.
Construction was unchanged.
Merchants shed 10,000 jobs.
Manufacturing shed 18,000 jobs.
It feels good to send $15 billion to Africa to cure AIDS. But this economy will not be able to pay the $70 trillion in unfunded liabilities it has promised the electorate, growing by $3 trillion per year and accelerating. Islam deserves what’s coming. We do too.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Iran wants nukes. I say let them have them, preferably on incoming Cruise missiles.
Prime minister Prodi is right about one thing however; idiots like him ARE the problem!
Sign over Italy's door:
"Lasciate ogne speranze, voi ch'intrate."
(Dante used it earlier over the gate to Hell.)
Prodi is the problem. He is a spineless coward.
...it did not take much to boot the Italians from the Iraqi theatre of operations....The Muslims have the Italians on the ropes and are going for the knock out punch....
....well, at least the Italians lasted longer in Iraq than the Spaniards did.....
....I guess they never heard the term...."If we don't fight them there, we will fight them here...." HA....
Ban Muslim immigration...