More misdirected piety and counterproductive surliness from our side
The City of New York has officially refused the request of Iranian President Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath at the site of the World Trade Center. Guess who benefits the most in a political sense from that decision? Now guess who benefits the least?
The bottom line is that denying Ahmadinejad permission to lay his wreath in New York benefits him and his regime and no one else. He will be able to say, "Look, they wouldn't allow me to do the right thing, what am I supposed to do with people like these?" And his country will buy that, so will a whole lot of Iraqi Shi'ites. Ahmadinejad probably knew that he would be refused and knew that it would benefit him.
The bottom line is that denying Ahmadinejad permission to lay his wreath in New York benefits him and his regime and no one else. He will be able to say, "Look, they wouldn't allow me to do the right thing, what am I supposed to do with people like these?" And his country will buy that, so will a whole lot of Iraqi Shi'ites. Ahmadinejad probably knew that he would be refused and knew that it would benefit him.
Posted at 9/20/2007 08:14:00 PM UTC
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The decision comes across as petty and classless.
We're all so grown up aren't we. We showed him didn't we.
Scott Adams (Dilbert) has an interesting take on this.
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Let's try that again without the typos! That Scott Adams piece was a delight to read. It's nice to see proof that there are still some real Americans left, i.e. independendent thinkers that don't just buy whatever facile tripe is thrown their way by the strategic communications shops here in Washington. Perhaps this is a sign that the capacity to comprehend complexity is coming back to public policy discourse?
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