Mahmoud Headline of the Day

I can't help but chuckle at this headline from the Washington Post: Iranian Leader Fails To Ease Tensions.

"Fails"? That would suggest there was some reasonable expectation that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would "ease tensions" with the world during his visit. And did anyone seriously believe that would happen? What was he going to say that could possibly make people feel better about the fact that his country is arming the murderers of our soldiers, or that it's acquiring nukes, or that it has zero regard for human rights? It's one thing to say the guy deserves a chance to say his piece (a right he denies to his own people), but did anyone really think that in saying his piece he would actually help to make ours a more peaceful or just world?

The answer to that question, believe it or not, is yes. Leave it to the good folks at the WaPo to actually find some goofball who held out hope that Ahmadinejad might be a peacemaker. And wouldn't you know, he was a college dean, at Columbia no less:

"(Ahmadinejad) had an opportunity to present himself to the American people in a way that would make conflict less likely. And I don't think he succeeded," said John H. Coatsworth, the Columbia University dean who moderated a speech."

There's an understatement!

I've got some other headlines for the WaPo:

O.J. fails to reconcile with ex-wife

Bush fails to woo crowd at MoveOn convention

Hilton fails to model safe-driving skills

Vick fails to show great compassion to animals.

In bathroom, Craig fails to disprove rumors about his sexuality