The Master of Double-Speak

Ahmadinejad again stuns on-lookers with his ability to evade, deceive, and twist the language of his interlocutors into a wholly insincere and uncooperative rhetorical defense. Blackwill is spot on: "If this man represents the prevailing government opinion in Tehran, we are heading for a massive confrontation with Iran."

Did the Mullahs just hand-pick the guy who they thought clever enough to delude the world into thinking Iran represented some kind of moral defense against Western "imperialism"? Because he looked best able to buy them enough time to build a bomb and thus guarantee their permanent existence against the demands of the Iranian population?

This guy really, really scares me.