WHEN WILL WE GET THIS MESSAGE? - AT 5:51 P.M. ET:  Iran keeps telling us what it really believes, and we never seem to believe it.  What part of this doesn't Barack Obama understand?  From the Jerusalem Post and AP:

Iran continued snubbing the world Tuesday, two days after defiantly announcing a decision to build ten uranium enrichment facilities in the face of international condemnation of its lack of transparency in dealing with the IAEA.

"Iran's nuclear issue has been resolved ... We will hold no talks (with major powers) over this issue. There is no need for talks," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, in a televised interview communicated by the Reuters news agency.

"Talking about isolating Iran (over its nuclear work) is a psychological war launched by the West ... Iran is a unique country ... and no country can isolate it," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.

COMMENT:  In other words, the negotiations are over. 

And what will our response be?  Well, the president is getting a hostile reaction from his party's Lenin-was-misunderstood wing over Afghanistan.  Does he want to take on this crowd again over Iran?  I suspect our first response will be disappointment and a letter to the editor.

As we've written here, many chickens are coming home to roost.  This country is in danger, and the American people, in poll after poll, are questioning the president's leadership.  Fortunately, we are entering an election year, when the people can send a message stronger than a Gallup response.

December 1, 2009