October 22, 2004
DEPARTMENT OF SELF PARODY:
Iran's Nuclear Threat (NY Times, 10/22/04)
What is critical is for the winner of the presidential race, and for the three European nations, to make it urgently and abundantly clear to Iran's president, Mohammad Khatami, and his mullahs that the West will brook no further delays, and that it is serious and united about imposing stern sanctions if Iran won't abandon its nuclear fuel enrichment efforts.
Not just sanctions, stern sanctions... Posted by Orrin Judd at October 22, 2004 12:41 PM
See how Allah prepares the Infidel for slaughter by The Faithful?
Posted by: Ken at October 22, 2004 12:45 PMWhat is needed here is extreme (regime) sanctions (in the euphemistic sense).
Posted by: jd watson at October 22, 2004 12:53 PM"...make it....abundantly clear"
MOAB or Tomahawk: putting the "stern" in sanctions.
Posted by: John Resnick at October 22, 2004 12:53 PM"And if you think you got a nasty taunting this time, you ain't heard nothing yet, son of a window-dresser!"
Posted by: Brandon at October 22, 2004 1:04 PMIf the terrorists ever target Zabar's or the Guggenheim Museum, look for the Times to run a "nuke 'em all" editorial in the next day's paper.
Posted by: John at October 22, 2004 1:33 PMWhat's a 'stern' sanction, insulting their moustaches?
Posted by: Fred Jacobsen (San Fran) at October 22, 2004 1:42 PMHow 'bout a march, maybe throw in a candlelight vigil.
Posted by: Jeff at October 22, 2004 2:05 PM'Course, when the guy from the UN/EU shows up to express his stern disapproval, he'll get thrown into the shark tank just like Hans Blix in North Korea. (Cf. Team America: World Police.)
Posted by: Mike Morley at October 22, 2004 2:29 PM'Stern' means swatting on them on the behind with the Sunday Times (as opposed to a weekday paper).
Posted by: jim hamlen at October 22, 2004 2:52 PM"Joschka Fischer, Germany's foreign minister and a strong proponent of diplomacy, warned earlier this week that a nuclear Iran could set off a Middle Eastern arms race"
Oh, let's hope it would set off a little more than that.
The "brook no further delays" is cute too. With things like tax returns and term papers, one is not surprised to hear of delays and extensions. But nuclear fuel enrichment?
Posted by: Peter B at October 22, 2004 4:54 PM"I fart in your general direction"
Posted by: G. Eugene at October 22, 2004 6:43 PMOr else what...MoDo will start calling him 'Muhammed Khatomic'? Grow up, Pinch.
Posted by: Noel at October 22, 2004 6:49 PM>Not just sanctions, stern sanctions...
Like the League of Nations levied on Japan after Manchuria in '31?
Tennohieka! Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!
Posted by: Ken at October 22, 2004 6:56 PMOh no, not Hans Brix!
- Kim Jong Il, Team America: World Police