Thursday, February 11, 2010
china confidential
A Memorable Moment in Appeasement History
"The Iranian nation is brave enough that if one day we wanted to build nuclear bombs we would announce it publicly without being afraid of you."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, taunting the West--as reported here--on February 11, 2010, following a year of failed attempts by the Obama administration to engage (appease) a nuclear-arming, Islamist nation that muses openly about "a world without America and Israel."
UPDATED ANALYSIS: China Confidential analysts believe Ahmadinejad may be planning to respond to new sanctions on Iran with a warning that the measures could be considered acts of war that could compel Iran to reconsider its position against development of nuclear weapons. The next step up the escalation ladder would probably be an actual nuclear test, detonation of a device (with North Korean observers in attendance).
China's Backing for Iran Makes War More Likely
China is helping its Iranian friends ... into an early grave. Click here for the analysis of the Chinese-Iranian alliance and how it is making a new Middle East war more likely (inevitable, in the view of China Confidential analysts).
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