1,826 (Or So) Days Late....

The International Atomic Energy Agency finally has the "V-8 moment" of which Barack Hussein Obama is congenitally incapable:

The International Atomic Energy Agency, in an unusually blunt and detailed report, said Monday that Iran’s suspected research into the development of nuclear weapons remained “a matter of serious concern” and that Iran continued to owe the agency “substantial explanations.”

The nine-page report accused the Iranians of a willful lack of cooperation, particularly in answering allegations that its nuclear program may be intended more for military use than for energy generation.

In the immortal words of the base drummer in my high school marching band after the announcement of the winning school at a competition which was beyond obvious to every living soul on that football field: "Noooooo [expletive]; [expletive], what was your FIRST guess?"  It's only taken the IAEA - what? - five years to figure this out?  Ten?

Look at the level of sleuthing skill that a little dose of aggrieved cynicism can produce: 

Part of the agency’s case hinges on eighteen documents listed in the report and presented to Iran that, according to Western intelligence agencies, indicate the Iranians have ventured into explosives, uranium processing and a missile warhead design — activities that could be associated with constructing nuclear weapons. ….

Naw - really?  The mullahs might actually be....CHEATING?  They may have been [*GASP*] LYING TO US ALL ALONG???  But...but...how can this be?  We were so sincere!  We sat down and talked to them!  So did the Brits, French, and Krauts!  We offered them money, we offered them trade, we offered them kitchen sinks!  We did everything Barack Hussein Obama says we should have done except for President Bush making a pilgrimmage to Tehran with a prayer rug, and now it turns out that they were bargaining in bad faith???  What are we going to learn next - that there is no Santa Clause?

The rational mind reacts to a story like this in one of two ways: (1) snorting a big loogie all over the monitor/newspaper/TV screen; (2) hurling a brick through the monitor/newspaper/TV screen, before or after the loogie snort.  After which one wonders plaintively if it might actually be possible for anybody in a position of influence and or power to finally put two and two together and not get something other than four, which is to say, to admit that diplomacy is a failed option that never had a prayer of changing the minds of insane, mass-murderering theocrats who are determined to get nuclear weapons and use them against their enemies in order to bring their messiah back to establish the Global Caliphate, and that it is time to accept the inevitability of military conflict while there might possibly still be time to pull the trigger on terms and a timetable favorable to us.

God only knows whether the Bushies are too far gone into cowed, pussy-whipped passivity at this point.  But we can always rely on the New York Times to take their dogmatic pacifistic idiocy to the mass graves:

Amid all of the White House’s saber-rattling, it is tempting to discount Iran’s genuine misbehavior. The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency is a grim reminder that Tehran is pressing ahead with its nuclear program, and the United States and its allies don’t have a strategy for containing it. …

This latest report is alarming, but it must not be used as an excuse by Washington hard-liners to launch another war. There are no good military options.

The United States and the other major powers — Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — have yet to put together a serious package of incentives and sanctions that might persuade Iran to change course.

That must include a credible American offer of security guarantees and normalized relations if Tehran abandons any nuclear weapons ambitions. If Iran persists, it must face sanctions with a lot more bite than Russia and China have been willing to consider, including a broader ban on doing business with Iranian banks and bans on arms sales and new investments in Iran.

Translation: Iranian nuclear intransigence, duplicity, and defiance is all George Bush's fault for not going to Tehran and getting on his knees before Adolph Ahmadinejad and offering even more "incentives" and even more "security guarantees" and even more "normalized relations," backed up by even more toothless "sanctions" - "if" they don't comply.  Like the "sweet deals" we've offered already haven't been spurned with contempt already - and then lavished upon the mullahs anyway.  They weren't "serious," you see.

If you ever wondered what the old saying meant about insanity being defined as employing the same failed idea over and over and over and over again in the blind [*ahem*] hope that through sheer repetition it will eventually succeed, you'll never get a better real-life example than the Democrats' Iran policy.  These people will pump the air full of meaningless words right up until Iranian warheads start vaporizing our cities, then turn around and bitterly condemn George Bush for not offering the mullahs enough "incentives" and "security guarantees" and "normalized relations" to "persuade" them to not destroy us.

Thus is any diplomatic initiative doomed to failure before it starts, quite apart from its futility where the Iranians are concerned.  As a diplomatic axiom holds, if you aren't willing to walk away from the negotiating table without a deal, you've already lost.  Libs were panicking when Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev to go pound sand in Reykavik in 1985 rather than give up SDI; four years later the Berlin Wall was gone, and two years after that so was the Evil Empire.  Even if the mullahs were persuadable, our government's telegraphed determination to not take the only step that can stop their drive toward nuclear Armageddon - pre-emptive military action - tells them all they need to know about how little heed they need give to our words.  Thus the lefty obsession with diplomacy is by definition self-defeating, and actively dangerous, yet they are psychotically welded to it.

The parallels to the rise of Nazi Germany to world-threatening status in the 1930s would be too obvious to merit mentioning if not for the abysmal historical ignorance that permeates "the reality-based community" and their charlatan unhatched-chicken counter.

The issue isn't whether there are "good" military options, but that there are better ones and worse ones.  The latter involves continuing this endless diplomatic masturbation until Tel Aviv, and perhaps London and Manhattan, go up in flames; the former is acting now before Tehran gains that capability.  It really is that simple.

That makes Jimmy Carter's latest escapade that much more tragicomical:

Mr. Peanut knew exactly what he was doing.  By drawing global attention to Israel's "undeclared" but commonly acknowledged nuclear arsenal, he's almost usurping the role of Adolph's nuclear negotiator by as much as inviting the Iranians to make de-nuking the Jews a pre-requisite to any further "incentive"/"security guarantee"/"normalized relations"-laden diplomatic give-aways.  That's bait you just KNOW the anti-Semitic American Left and its "peace process" fantasism couldn't resist.  Thus would the Rodbama administration bulldoze the Israelis into surrendering the last remaining guarantor of their national existence - the ability to, like Samson of old, take their enemies to oblivion with them.

The parallel with Munich 1938 is already becoming ear-splitting.  But only for those who still have ears to hear.  Unfortunately, deafness has come into vogue, and looks to be staying there for a long, long time to come.

UPDATE: Admit it, this man was BORN to be Secretary of State....