January 24, 2006

Makes you think!

Every challenge to the civilized world begins as a contest of wills -- and for the Iranians recent history, from the shah and the embassy siege to the Iraqi "insurgency" and Jack Straw's sound bites ["at pains to emphasize no military action against Tehran is contemplated"], tells them the West can't muster the will needed to make them back down.
"Something for mullahs to mull over." By Mark Steyn, Washington Times, 1/23/06.

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