Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Iran should stop being provocative...

...says White House spokesman Tony Snow, as the US considers moving a second aircraft carrier into the Gulf.

We hear that the administration is pondering whether to send this second aircraft carrier in as a show of force, a warning to Tehran over its nuclear programme and support for Shia militias in Iraq. I think it's just delightful.

3 Comments:

Blogger Germain said...

Nothing like a good round of diplomatic arm wrestling in a region as destabilized as the Balkans in 1913 to guarantee global peace...

Somebody send the Archduke!

20 December, 2006 17:58  
Blogger Peter said...

I wouldn't be all that surprised if a disgruntled student assassinated Ahmadinejad. They're getting restive over there. I get the sense that with economic growth and an increasingly educated middle class, it will be more and more difficult for the Ayatollahs to keep a lid on their population's dissent. But who knows...

21 December, 2006 10:30  
Blogger Kevin said...

Happy New Year, guys.

01 January, 2007 15:26  

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