"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!

Posted by: witness at April 25, 2006 9:07 AM

"ally Greece.."
-- from the article

How about just "Greece"?

Posted by: Hugh at April 25, 2006 9:13 AM

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.

Posted by: cactus at April 25, 2006 9:16 AM

Sorry about that! Meant to say - working hours.

Posted by: cactus at April 25, 2006 9:18 AM

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.

Posted by: Paolo at April 25, 2006 9:29 AM

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."

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at April 25, 2006 12:13 PM

Thus says Iran:
Criticise us for deception, and we'll practice more deception.

Iran Warns It Might Hide Its Nukes

Posted by: Report at April 25, 2006 12:15 PM

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 at April 25, 2006 1:30 PM

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.

Posted by: Mr Ape Pig at April 25, 2006 2:36 PM

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.

Posted by: FrankLev at April 25, 2006 3:23 PM

"Rice might be a knowledgeable historian..."
-- from a posting above

On what basis has this story been bruited about?

Posted by: Hugh at April 25, 2006 3:40 PM

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.

MO HIJABS MO LEFT JABS MO BACK-STABS MO SOMALI CABS MO MO ALWAYS MO MO

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?

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at April 25, 2006 3:45 PM

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.

Posted by: Paolo at April 25, 2006 4:25 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleeza_Rice#Academic_career

Posted by: Foehammer at April 26, 2006 2:39 AM