DESPERATION EVIDENT

The European Union is going to try being nice to Iran in attempting to get it to drop its uranium enrichment program. In reporting on the EU's efforts to woo Iran the BBC makes this unusually candid observation:

It is a measure of the west's desperation that it has had to resort to such an incentive package.

Negotiating from a position of weakness isn't going to produce the desired results.

Update: It didn't take long for Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to tell the EU to get lost:

"Any incentive that does not include Iran's right to nuclear technology and the ways to secure it will not have any attraction for the Iranian people and government," the IRNA agency quoted Mottaki as telling reporters in Indonesia Saturday.