It's all part of provoking a confrontation

and proving who's the big dog...

Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday the United States, Europe and the U.N. Security Council are "humiliating" Iran by demanding that it suspend uranium enrichment before any negotiations and then dictating its rewards.

He said the package of economic and political incentives put forward in June 2006 by the U.S. and key European countries, which was later endorsed by the council, did not mention the key issue of security guarantees for Iran or adequately address the possibility of U.S. diplomatic recognition if Tehran renounces enrichment.

"The first incentive, I think, is to sit down with them in a direct talk rather than saying to them 'you do this, thereafter we will sit down at a table and tell you what you get for it,'" Blix said. "That's getting away from a humiliating neo-colonial attitude to a more normal (one)."

"People have their own pride whether you like them or don't," he told a media briefing ahead of a daylong conference on "Weapons Threats and International Security" organized by The Century Foundation, a Washington-based research institute on domestic and international challenges.

hearkening back to yesterday's post on chomsky...

[I]ndependence is not tolerated. [...] International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders and it can spread to important places.

because, after all, as both arthur silber and chomsky note...

arthur...

We see our success, and our power on the world stage, as inherently tied to superior moral virtue. We are so successful because we are uniquely virtuous, and our national power confirms our morality, in relation to which all other peoples and all other countries can only suffer in comparison.

chomsky...

It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically noble. And if you bring in normal moderate, conservative, strategic, economic objectives you are threatening that principle. It's remarkable the extent to which it's held.

and, because it's US doing it, it HAS to be right...

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