National Security from ‘Saturday Night Live’

James Carafano / May 03, 2010

“Live from Tehran. It’s Nuclear Summit Too!”

That’s how Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should have opened his “nuclear” summit with representatives from 60 countries. Ahmadinejad’s two-day forum convened the week after President Obama’s star-studded nuclear security summit in Washington.

The Iranian kicked off his summit with a monologue laced with howlers, including a demand that the United States be the first to disarm. “Threatening with nuclear weapons only dishonored the American government officials and more fully exposed their inhumane and aggressive policies,” he declared.

Ahmadinejad’s not funny. But he’s no idiot either.

On Feb. 11, he celebrated the 31st anniversary of the Iranian Revolution by proclaiming Iran a “nuclear state.” He knows that no one believes Tehran is pursuing a nuclear program just to power light bulbs. (more…)