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Keep not doing what you're not doing

October 8, 2005 Posted by Paul at 9:09 AM

Mohamed ElBaradei and his International Atomic Energy Agency have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. ElBaradei's fecklessness in dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat surely was a big point in his favor. But I suspect that his opposition to the removal of the terrorist-sponsoring butcher Saddam Hussein put him over the top. That plus the fact that Carter recently won the award and Arafat is dead.

ElBaradei interpreted the award as a message to "keep doing what you're doing." What he's doing is providing the very faint illusion of a response to Iran's development of nuclear weapons.