Kerry’s Bad Week.

You know, it’s never a good sign when a couple of your major policy proposals blow up in your face before you’re elected.

Jeff Harrell notes John Kerry’s bad week.

Remember that Kerry wanted to have bilateral talks with North Korea at the same time that the 6-way talks were happening? Well, China’s not so hot on that idea. Nor should they be. China knows that it is the only nation besides the United States that can have a direct influence on North Korea right now (the other nations are neighbors and can help the Norks appreciable in the future, but on the nuke issue, it’s us and China. That’s it.). I can’t imagine their ceding the issue to us, not when they have a seat at the table and some honest diplomatic power. My guess is that should we proceed with John Kerry’s proposal, it’s going to tick off the Chinese greatly. And I wouldn’t blame them.

So Kerry lost that one pretty much as soon as the words were out of his mouth.

Then he lost another one.

Remember how he wants to give nuclear fuel to Iran for their energy program in return for verifying the disposal of any unspent fuel? Well, Iran has very pointedly given him the middle finger on that one.

But Kerry says he would put Iran’s intentions to the test by agreeing to supply it with nuclear fuel for its power reactors provided Tehran stopped efforts to make its own fuel and returned the spent fuel after use.

Iran has rejected repeated efforts by European countries to get it to scrap its nuclear fuel-cycle activities — which could be used to make atomic bombs.

Asefi said Iran could not trust any deal from the West to supply it with reactor fuel.

“What guarantees are there? Will they supply us one day and then, if they want to, stop supplying us on another day?” he said.

Well, they do have a point. Iran learned during the Iran-Iraq War that it needs a big deterrent to attack form other nations. Nuclear weapons are the one they can reach. No one in their right mind believes that Iran’s nuclear program is for peaceful energy production – not while it sits on a huge oil reserve and has one of the world’s largest natural gas reserve in the world. They have energy production potential in spades. They want The Bomb. They intend on having The Bomb.

Now, to Kerry’s credit, he’s not so dumb as to believe that Iran wants nuclear material for peaceful purposes. As the article says, his offer is a test to see what Iran’s intentions are.

Now we know. Wat will his next position be, I wonder?