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| | Victor Davis Hanson on Iran and Ahmadinejad on National Review Online |
 | | Second, Iranians simultaneously send out their Westernized diplomats to the U.N. and the international media to sound sober, judicious, and aggrieved pleading that a victimized Iran only wants peaceful nuclear energy and has been unfairly demonized by an imperialistic United States. |
 | | The well-spoken professionals usually lay out all sorts of protocols and talking-points, all of which they will eventually subvert except the vacuous ones which lead nowhere, but nevertheless appeal to useful Western idiots of the stripe that say “Israel has a bomb, so let’s be fair.” |
 | | Third, they talk, talk, talk with the Europeans, Chinese, Russians, Hugo Chavez, anyone and everyone, and as long as possible in order to draw out the peace-process and buy time in the manner of the Japanese militarists of the late 1930s, who were still jawing about reconciliation on December 7, 1941, in Washington. |
| www.nationalreview.com /hanson/hanson200604070923.asp (1616 words) |
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