More On Peace With Iran

Yesterday, I had short discussion about the fact that Iran has been acting like it wants play nice in the world community and how I thought that it was a bad idea to cozy up to them. Well, today, in the Washington Times, we find a commentary calling more political pressure and more support for Iranian dissidents.

That is probably the least confrontational way of trying to reign in the Iranian thugocracy. Negotiating with them doesn't work. Treaties, agreements, understandings are all made to be broken when convenient for the thugs. Some don't even make it a week before abrogation. Is this the kind of regime we want to be holding talks with? Is a regime that views agreements with non-Muslims as invalid the kind of regime with which we want to have "normal" diplomatic relations?

Ratchet up the pressure. When the regime falls and a more reasonable and trustworthy regime takes over, then we can talk about normalizing relations.

Until then, we need to keep the formal, diplomatic relations on ice.