DISQUS

The Moderate Voice: Iran’s Reversal: Why Isn’t This Story Getting More Play?

  • Ron Beasley · 1 month ago
    Why isn't the fact that Israel has 200 nuclear warheads is not part of the Nuclear Non Proliferation treaty getting more play? If I were Iran I would want Nukes too.
  • Davebo · 1 month ago
    Yes let the highly effective UN take the reins.


    The EU is not the UN. You realize that right?
  • AustinRoth · 1 month ago
    The EU is not the UN. You realize that right?

    Of course it isn't. The EU is even less democratic and transparent than the UN. The UN exists to allow third-world countries to enrich and enable their corrupt governments; the EU exists to restore the aristocracy to the rule of Europe.
  • Davebo · 1 month ago
    Even less democratic? Err.. OK.

    the EU exists to restore the aristocracy to the rule of Europe.


    Wow! Get out of Oklahoma much?

    The EU has something the UN doesn't. Leverage against Iran.
  • AustinRoth · 1 month ago
    Get out of Oklahoma much?

    Do you have a clue about US geography? AustinRoth. Duh.
  • Davebo · 1 month ago
    Sorry dude but Sooner is as Sooner does
  • JeffersonDavis · 1 month ago
    The EU has been "working" with Iran for years on the nuclear issue.
    I'm quite certain that their work will culminate with an Iranian nuclear missle. Diplomacy hasn't worked well for Europe for the last 80 years or so.
  • shannonlee · 1 month ago
    This isn't an "us only" problem. The EU has been dealing with Iran for years. They are just as invested as we are. We should continue to let them do the work.
  • Douglas Wolf · 1 month ago
    Yes let the highly effective UN take the reins. The UN track record in Africa, (Darfur) for example, has been exemplary.
  • DLS · 1 month ago
    "I just don’t see how there’s a bigger story than Iran’s reversal."

    1. There may be more important domestic issues, as with how Afghanistan rates against these issues.

    2. The reversal doesn't fit in with the happy ending the lib establishment anticipates or expects with Iran.

    3. There are idosyncracies and preferences, colored by trends or a group (herd) mentality about favorite topics of the moment or of the day, just as there are on this Web site. There has been no thread yet here about the Congressional ethics investigations, or about Rattner's remarks about General Motors's management (and the secondary story about the question of self-aggrandizement by Rattner himself), or the alarming proposal to create new dictatorial powers over financial firms (including explicit takeover details), which Mikkel is planning to write about, admittedly.
  • AustinRoth · 1 month ago
    Because it is not 'news' to the MSM. Iran reneging is dog bites man, not man bites dog.

    Plus, it doesn't fit the meme of Nobel Prize winning President reduces World Nuclear Threat. They don't want to print "Nobel Prize winning President gets punked by Iran - AGAIN!"
  • DLS · 1 month ago
    "Nobel Prize winning President reduces World Nuclear Threat"

    Horsey didn't fail to notice this:

    http://www.seattlepi.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?...


    Nor this...

    (Peter, Paul, and Mary? No, Harry, Nance, and Barry.)

    http://www.seattlepi.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?...
  • DLS · 1 month ago
    "The UN track record" ... "Nobel Prize winning"

    Wherever has the Committee been? Especially with the UN General Assembly? ($1 million, each and all!)
  • pacatrue · 1 month ago
    EU bad. UN bad. Only U.S. good.

    Anyway, I agree with Austin's original comment: No one expect Iran to actually agree to anything. When they truly follow through with a promise, that'll be news.

    The bigger story on this might not be the Iranian oligarchy reneging, but the fact that the Iranian negotiators don't appear to actually have sufficient power to negotiate. If the deals they cut are ignored, it will become worthless to negotiate with them. It's similar to the trouble that U.S. administrations have on many trade deals. The executive negotiates, but the legislature decides. Makes it harder to negotiate with us.
  • redbus · 1 month ago
    Hey, be nice to Oklahomans. I is one!
  • DLS · 1 month ago
    Sil, at least, provided a halfway intelligent lefty response. Missing fundamental substance, though.

    "Why isn't the fact that Israel has 200 nuclear warheads"

    Israel is a responsible, trustworthy nation, unlike its scumbag enemies. There's an obvious difference!