Comments on: USA: “Can we talk?” Iran: “Fuhgeddaboudid!”

By: Steve M

Steve M — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:37:07 +0000

“…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.

By: mojo

mojo — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:28:20 +0000

It’s pronounced “crispy critter”, I think…

By: ray_g

ray_g — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:17:55 +0000

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.

By: patrick neid

patrick neid — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:47:24 +0000

“i’m a dinner jacket”

stolen from a poster CQ’s

By: Michael J. Totten

Michael J. Totten — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:04:23 +0000

Oops, sorry for being redundant, Word Guy.

By: Michael J. Totten

Michael J. Totten — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:03:31 +0000

Ock-mah-DEE-neh-zhod

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:50:01 +0000

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.

By: Word Guy

Word Guy — Wed, 31 May 2006 22:45:31 +0000

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.

By: Kevin Peters

Kevin Peters — Wed, 31 May 2006 22:19:06 +0000

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.