In our last post, we wrote that we were done for the week "assuming nothing major happens". From the Times Online via Drudge, this qualifies:

Reaction 1: all of those countries have been just plain awesome in insulating their military and scientific echelons from terrorist infiltration.

Reaction 2: we hate the UN.

Reaction 3: it's so nice that the Sunday Times did that little drop-in about how these theocratic and barbaric kleptocracies have a right to pursue nuclear technology.

Reaction 4: no really, it's nice - because these familiar journalistic ticks of deeply ingrained, institutionalized liberal biases are about all that's left to hold on to in a world spinning off its axis.

Reaction 5: remember to note for readers that reactions 3 and 4 were sarcastic... try to avoid dwelling on how we're sarcastic even when we talk to ourselves.

Reaction 6: wow, we really could not hate the UN more. Not so much because it's an un-drainable swamp of thugs, terrorist sympathizers, and fascists. We can deal with political mendacity in the context of argument and opposition. Dishonesty in the service of self-interest is basic to human nature - that Adam and Eve disguised their nakedness is as much an empirical statement as a normative warming. The UN, though, brings us to the brink of sputtering incoherence. It's the way that they - and much of the Left - combine consistent failure with almost unseemly self-satisfaction. To hear Turtle Bay's proponents tell it, you'd think that the General Assembly has consistently been a think tank and launching pad for action against genocide. The opposite, of course, is true. So you've got a version of the idiot's paradox: they're too far gone that you can't even make them perceive how far gone they are.

Reaction 7: now we have to suffer another two weeks of the press asking insipid rhetorical questions like "if Israel has nuclear technology, how is it fair to deny the same technology to Arab states?"

Reaction 8: of course, those questions are going to be in the context of very-informative-and-newsworthy-quotes from learned commentators and global leaders. Because journalists don't inject their own opinions into their stories.

Reaction 9: wonder if this'll effect the election. October surpr-

Reaction 10: oh God. The DKos Denizens are going to blame Rove for this.

Reaction 11: how pathetic is it that we can't even have a serious debate in this country any more? One side can only go so far in opposing their own party's President. So that puts some very basic positions off-limits. E.g: "the State Department is sending the world to hell in a hand-basket... and they're basing the design of the hand basket on a series of very professional-looking 3-tone, 7-slide PowerPoint presentations about the Muslim world's 'legitimate grievances', the destination still sucks". And then, the other side is even worse. Its leaders are South Park fodder because they're spineless and pathetic, while their base is South Park material because it's totally retarded .

Reaction 12: excuse me... yeah, another one please... yeah, only ice again... what? No - the well vodka is fine thanks.

Anyway, we're well past metaphors like "the world stands at the doorway of the worst-case post-Cold War scenario: multiple failed states with decentralized military structures, massive corruption, and loose nukes". Because we've been at that door for a while. The problem is that instead of turning around and trying to walk away, we've kind of hovered around the doorstep and hoped that no one opened the door. But the UN has been so egregiously bad at controlling Iran and North Korea lately that this metaphor doesn't really suffice. If the door is a world of nuclear terrorism and the world is on the doorstep, the best analogy would be that the UN - after ringing the doorbell and knocking a few times - has now taken to frantically trying to kick the door down.

But at least the Democratic party is committed to restoring our image with those people. So that they'll like us a little more when they sell their nuke technology, their enriched uranium, and their scientific knowledge to people who are literally - literally – the enemies of Western civilization. (h/t for ruining our evening: Stan Shivell)

Previously: Iran Baffles World By Refusing To Give Up Nuclear Ambitions, IAEA Plays Charlie Brown To Iran's Lucy,
The IAEA - What A Bunch Of Idiots

UPDATE: Apparently LGF had this hours ago. Which means that to avoid the news you had to be someone who read neither Drudge nor LGF tonight - making you either (a) an overloaded student (b) an observant Jew or (c) a tech-hating luddite. Which means that there was no reason to blog it. Which means that we're going to murder Stan.