The UN's IAEA is a Farce

From Reuters:
"IAEA chief Mohammad El-Baradei said that the West may have no choice but to allow Iran to carry out small-scale uranium enrichment on its soil, diplomats said..."

El-Baradei over the past years has had one good quote after another, if you didn't believe Nobel's were political then his receiving one should have been a wakeup call. Like Annan (a Ghanan), El-Baradei (an Egyptian) has never personally experienced any Democratic institution, never enjoyed a free press (until he got to New York), and has never solved any of the issues that are his mandate. In fact his statements about complete American Nuclear Disarmnament throughout the years of rising tension can almost be comic relief.

People like El-Baradei, Amman, Amman's recently fired aid etc, reinforce the view that the UN and its staff is not a solution for anything important, at best it is a "Commons" where nations and blocs can meet and talk. We need to drastically cut the budget of the UN and its programs, and re-program the staff that is left.

Ha! - "US will come around to Hamas"

I am always amazed at the Muslim World's ability to communicate their own self deception, something to do with the lack of a free press and all of that. A single election does not make a democracy, the rule of law does not come from an AK, and a "so called" democracy can still be a lawless state: Nazi Germany, the old Republic of South Africa, Iran, the old USSR etc. Even real democracies like Hungary when they allied themselves to the Germans, we simply withdrew.

From the NYTimes on 2/14/06
"New Hamas legislators were unimpressed. Farhat Asaad, a Hamas spokesman, and Nasser Abdaljawad, who won a seat in Salfit where two Fatah candidates split the vote, gave the United States "a year or two" to come around to the idea of dealing openly with Hamas.

Mr. Asaad, a former Israeli prisoner, said: "We hope it isn't U.S. policy. Because those who try to isolate us will be isolated in the region."

Hamas will move on two parallel fronts, he said: the first, to reform Palestinian political life, and the second, "to break the isolation of our government." If Hamas succeeds on both fronts, he said, "we will achieve a great thing for our people, a normal life with security and a state of law, where no one can abuse power."

Hamas will find the money it needs from the Muslim world, said Mr. Abdaljawad, who spent 12 years in jail and got a Ph.D. while there. Hamas will save money by ending corruption and providing efficiency. Hamas will break the Palestinian dependency on Israel, he said.

Mr. Asaad laughed and added: "First, I thank the United States that they have given us this weapon of democracy. But there is no way to retreat now. It's not possible for the U.S. and the world to turn its back on an elected democracy."

A Muslim Conspiracy - who would have guessed

It would appear that burning Danish flags and embassies wasn't a spontaneous issue of the people on the street, the "progressive" governments of the Moslem states were working on it in December. I'm shocked.



From the New York Times:
"BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 8 — As leaders of the world's 57 Muslim nations gathered for a summit meeting in Mecca in December, issues like religious extremism dominated the official agenda. But much of the talk in the hallways was of a wholly different issue: Danish cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad.The closing communiqué took note of the issue when it expressed "concern at rising hatred against Islam and Muslims and condemned the recent incident of desecration of the image of the Holy Prophet Muhammad in the media of certain countries" as well as over "using the freedom of expression as a pretext to defame religions.""