The west loses the test of will

Fox News - In a key meeting that may determine the future of Iran's nuclear ambitions, the U.S. and five other world powers went to the table with Tehran on Thursday to demand a freeze of its nuclear activities. As officials arrived in Geneva for talks expected to last eight hours or more, U.S. officials said there probably will be additional meetings but they won't go on indefinitely. "There's a specific agenda and specific problems that needed to be dealt with and if they're not dealt with responsibly by the Iranians that stronger measures will be developed and implemented to ensure that they do," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.

......Iranian officials have indicated they don't want to talk about their two nuclear enrichment facilities. Asked about Iran's view of the talks, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- who has repeatedly said uranium enrichment is not up for negotiation -- said he saw them as a "test" of the six powers' respect of Iran's rights.
Wow, 'stronger' measures are on the table, I wonder what they could be. After all, for the last 6 or 7 years, they've been beating Iran around with a duck-feather pillow and we all know how that worked out, so I guess they'll be moving on to lettuce leaves now? I'm sure the Iranians are cringing at the mere thought of it. Ultimately, no one is going to stop them, this is all just the ground work to show you that they tried their best but nothing could be done. The excuses will range from, we have them so why can't they, who are we to tell them what to do, the constitution says nothing about it, we'll show them if they dare to use it; to socialized medicine is more important, global warming is a bigger threat, they don't really want to use it, talk to the UN, blah, blah.

You know what I find revealing, educational and in some ways hard to believe about all this? On the one side you have Iran, just another 3rd world islamic shithole that no one would give a damn about if they didn't have oil or were pursuing nuclear weapons. If you stop and think about it, Iran hasn't produced anything for the world, if you look around you, is there something that was made in Iran, did they produce some fancy TV or toaster that can fry eggs as well, no. Something that we cannot do without, no. Do they have some sort of vast army of jihadists about to set sail for Australia to invade and spread the religion of death and mayhem, well no.

On the other side of the table, you have 1 x Super power and 5 x World powers. Together they have produced far more things than we can count, I wouldn't be typing this, nor would you be reading this if it weren't for free men and women living in them. Life in one of them is like a dream if you're living in some 3rd world shithole, like Iran. On the military side of things, they could most likely obliterate this planet a few times over if they felt like it. They can sit in some bunker thousands of miles away and launch a missile from the top of their heads that'll blow you to a million pieces without you even knowing it was coming.

And yet, all 5 and 1 super power go to a table and sit with that 3rd world islamist shithole and actually negotiate with them. Look at it another way, say Iran got all the same weapons and technology that America has, do you think that a Kenya, Chile or Zimbabwe could sit at a table somewhere and tell the mullahs to get their ass on over for some talks that might not go anywhere. Most likely, Iran would tell them to jump and they'd politely request where, when and how high.

But not with the western world, somehow a worthless, sniveling pip-squeak like Iran has the worlds more powerful literally begging them to stop being naughty, they are all apparently on some sort of equal footing. All those missiles, guns, planes, bombs etc are all completely useless because the western world doesn't have the will to use any of them. Maybe I'm wrong, but getting your way in this world seems to be like one of those equation things, Will + Means = Your Way. Except that the 'Will' component always trumps the means i.e. all the means in the world, but little or no will only gets you close, but no cigar.

A word of caution though, to all the upstarts around the world, there's one problem with just being big on will and rather small on the means, it'll get you a long way in dealing with the western world, but if you keep pushing, the westerner can easily muster his will. And if he can muster the will and if he also retains the means, history shows that he is far more dangerous, terrifying and efficient at killing thousands of you. Even if he doesn't retain the means, he can get it much quicker than you can. Defeating him, breaking him and even scattering him is no guarantee that he won't come back later to destroy you and consign you to the history books.

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