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Honest Ahmadinejad
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Iranian President Ahmadinejad spoke Monday in New York at the start of the UN conference reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and nothing could have done more to expose the folly of relying on arms control to maintain global security. The Iranian couldn't have been clearer that his country intends to ignore any and all UN pressure to stop building its bomb. Delegates from the U.S., UK and France walked out during his speech, to their credit. Ahmadinejad's message is that Iran won't be deterred by a stricter world anti-proliferation treaty, or by one more UN Security Council resolution. Iran wants the bomb in order to become a more potent Mideast power that can do as it pleases. The truly humiliating spectacle is the sight of the world's leading powers devoting a month to updating a treaty designed to stop nonproliferation even as Ahmadinejad makes a mockery of that effort. The rest of the world sees that Iran was able to face down the world's leading powers - and prevail.