Will El Baradei follow in U Thant's footsteps?

Over at History News Network Judith Apt Klinghoffer compares Ahmadinejad with Nasser, and the UN's reaction to both. UN appeasment of Nasser led to the 1967 Six Day War in the Middle East. Appeasment of Ahmadinejad paves the way for a war that will have far greater consiquences for Western Civilization.

Instead of turning around U Thant not only went, agreed immediately to withdraw all the UNEF forces from Egypt and issued an appeal for a cooling off period on terms which, the horrified Ralph Bunch complained, placed him "in position of effectively endorsing the blockade and fully implementing it without any further effort by Nasser." The Six Day War became known as U Thant's War.

Today, the Security Council responded to Ahmadinejad's challenge by passing a watered down resolution urging Iran to comply with the demands of the IAEA and asked for an IAEA to report back to the Security within a week. In preparation for that report the IAEA chief Mohamed El Baradei is flying to Tehran. The announcement of the successful Uranium enrichment like the announcement of the closure of the Straits is intended to present him with a fait accompli.

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/23868.html