Hal is here, so I think we owe it to him as well as yourself to disabuse you of that last image.

Indeed, if there is a danger in the proposed US India accord, it is the possibility that either North Korea or Iran might conclude that it is only a matter of time before the world comes to accept their nuclear status. Here the US and others must disabuse them.

Some Iranian reformers and exiles put a bright face on Ahmadinejad s election, arguing that his administration is more likely to show the regime s real face and disabuse any Western hopes of compromise. Yet it may also represent the regime s success at co opting dissatisfaction with a quarter century of radical Islamist rule.