AP SOURCE: NO RIGHT TO ENRICH IN IRAN DEAL

[Scootaloo]

41. I think that's not the word you're looking for.

"Irrational" is a word that means incapable of reason, incoherent, unthinking.

Nuclear power might not be the best option for Iran, but for them to pursue it isn't irrational, any more than our continued use of petroleum is irrational on our part. It's not the best idea, but it's not because we - or they - are gibbering mindless morons.

You want irrationality on this issue, I think you might want to look a little closer to home.

Between 2001 and 2009, we had as president a man who believed that Iran was Gog, a herald of the biblical end times, and that it would go to war with Israel resulting in Jesus coming back to usher in God's Kingdom On Earth. He clung to Reagan-era policies towards Iran, classing them as part of the "Axis of Evil." While doing so, he absolutely wrecked a neighboring state supposedly on that "axis" to the point where, a decade later, it's barely even a nation anymore. He absolutely refused to engage in even the barest amount of diplomacy towards Iran, instead using threats of murderous carnage and economic destruction to get what he wanted out of them, leading in large part to the 2005 victory of hardliner Ahmedinejad who, to be honest, wasn't all there himself (but had considerably less influence on Iranian policy than the American president does on the US.) Meanwhile, our Shitty Little Client States in the region, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are running around literally trying their hardest to get a live war going with Iran, because Israel wants to be sole regional power, and because Saudi Arabia likes a lot of dead Shia. Over the last decade they have been throwing all the weight they have against peaceful resolution of the issue, because they favor a solution that involves hundreds of thousands of dead Iranians.

So when Rouhani makes the first move, and the Iranians come to the table to act in good faith, despite the pile of baggage that's teetring over the opposite side of that table, and you call them the irrational ones? I dunno man.

One thing we can agree on though - thank goodness Obama was the one to pick up that phone and not either of the nuts he ran against!