Under the Bus You Go

A story flying under most folks' radar is the conference in Geneva between the major Western powers and Iran over the latter's nuclear program. As the article below states, it has hit some "snags" as Iran has basically told the West to blow off - it is going ahead with its nuclear program regardless. It is the French (the French!) who are taking the toughest position, with the French Foreign Minister saying that France did not to be part of a "con game" in these talks. Vive la France!

townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2013/11/09/world-powers-set-for-new-round-of-iran-nuke-talks-n1743646

The U.S. has previously announced that it is bed with China and Russia on this one, Obama's buddy Putin having done such a wonderful job in Syria. China gets much of its oil from Iran and Russia depends on keeping the Middle East in turmoil to inflate oil prices and thereby prop up the Russian economy, since oil and natural gas are about all that country produces, so no self interest there. But wait, as they say on television - there's even more!

Apparently for 5 months or so, the Obama Administration has eased up on international sanctions against Iran. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/08/exclusive-obama-s-secret-iran-d-tente.html  This is the old "signal" variety of diplomacy where you basically show your intentions by progressively taking off all your clothes and bending over while the other side just sits there. Inevitably, someone gets screwed and it's usually not the guy in the chair. 

More darkly, despite protestations from the Regime, the stories read together lead to the possible inference that the U.S. has made the strategic decision to feign a protest over Iran going nuclear, but that's the extent of it. And if Israel gets nuked, well - que sera, sera. Middle East problem solved. But not really. Iran has said for a long time that Israel is the Little Satan and the U.S. is the Great Satan, but progressives never believe things like this, just like Chamberlain in Britain did not believe Hitler and look how well that turned out.