The Iranians have come back with a negative response to the American proposal to talk faster than you can say… Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! [A lot faster. I can't even pronunce it.-ed. Well, you better learn.]
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1. Kevin Peters:Roger:
What a shock! Do you think it just might be that Iran has no intention of ever stopping their program and that any negotiation with Iran is simply a stall plan to allow them to continue their program? Iran is so transparent regarding their designs for nuclear weapons I can’t really be mad at them because they are so open about what they are going to do. It’s the willful blindless of the west that pretends that these talks mean anything that makes me ill.
There are some honest lefties who come out and say that Iran has the right to nuclear weapons and I can talk to them even if I think they are naive because they don’t try to make me drink the kool aid theory that if we just treat Iran sweetly they will drop their program. The talks are just a giant charade to give the west the excuse to do nothing and then shrug their shoulders when Iran gets the bomb. The train is coming down the track and the west is trying to call the locomotive headlights they see in front of them the moon.
May 31, 2006 - 3:19 pm 2. Word Guy:Mr. S.,
Quick tutorial: Ahmadinejad is likely originally a French transliteration. The more scholarly, English-based way would say, AhmadÓ-Nezh‚d. The short ‘a’ (no little hat) is pronounced like “cat” and the long ‘a’ (‚) is more like “aw” or even “o”. And Persian generally accents the last syllable… so:
ah-ma-DEE ne-ZHOD
And, yeah, that first syllable isn’t “ah” like Bill Buckley’s, “Ah, ah,” but a-as-in-cat followed by an H sound.
May 31, 2006 - 3:45 pm 3. David Thomson:ìThere are some honest lefties who come out and say that Iran has the right to nuclear weaponsî
Just remember that fact on election day. Do you want these people influencing our elected officials in a major way? Well, that is what will happen if the Democrats do well in November. Even the so-called moderates will feel pressured by these naive fools.
May 31, 2006 - 6:50 pm 4. Michael J. Totten:Ock-mah-DEE-neh-zhod
May 31, 2006 - 11:03 pm 5. Michael J. Totten:Oops, sorry for being redundant, Word Guy.
May 31, 2006 - 11:04 pm 6. patrick neid:“i’m a dinner jacket”
stolen from a poster CQ’s
Jun 1, 2006 - 9:47 am 7. ray_g:I just had a weird vision of Wretchard’s Three Conjectures colliding with Tom Leher’s song “Who’s Next”. And now here comes Randy Newman.
I need to get really drunk now so I’ll have an excuse.
Jun 1, 2006 - 11:17 am 8. mojo:It’s pronounced “crispy critter”, I think…
Jun 1, 2006 - 1:28 pm 9. Steve M:“…as soon as Iran fully and verifiably suspends its enrichment and reprocessing activities, the United States will come to the table” – Condee Rice
It’s a pity that the Iranians are so keen to play macho that they don’t actually listen to the ‘diplo-speak’. They could ‘verifiably suspend’ for just an hour and a half and still meet the US conditions for talks.
Jun 2, 2006 - 1:37 am