OK I know it's the LA Times but...

My Sunday LA Times today had an article entitled,

Iran reformists want U.S. to tone it down
Nuclear rhetoric helps a faltering Ahmadinejad stay popular, they say.

You can read it here.

I found it provocative in the sense that whenever we have had nuts in the past we always find the "Emporer has no clothes." It will be that way for Hugo Chavez, as it was with Kadafi, Castro, and now Kim Jong Il. Other than their rhetoric and atrocities they have nothing to offer. So is there a point to what the article suggests??

"Most people voted for Ahmadinejad because he promised they would never have to feel sad again on New Year's Eve in front of their children," said Farshid Bakhtieri, a 21-year-old computer salesman. "Everyone right now, they feel nothing but regret."One person says he voted for Ahmadinejad because he would create jobs. And there are no jobs. Another person says it was because he would build houses. No one can afford these houses," Bakhtieri said. "He is like all the other politicians in the history of Iran, all of them coming with lots of promises, but no one follows these promises. He is exactly like the others."Tens of thousands of Iranians will gather in the streets today for what is supposed to be a ringing public endorsement of Iran's 28-year-old Islamic Revolution and its embattled drive for nuclear power. But many Iranians say the international dispute over Iran's nuclear program has become a rallying point for a president who otherwise would be facing substantial public dissatisfaction over soaring inflation, rising unemployment and widespread censorship. This has been a source of frustration to Iran's reformists, who dealt the president's party a blow at the polls in local elections in December but omplain that the Bush administration's threatening rhetoric has pulled the rug out from under them. "You are harmful for us. We try to tell politicians in Washington, D.C., please don't do anything in favor of reform or to promote democracy in Iran. Because in 100% of the cases, it benefits the right wing," said Saeed Leylaz, a business consultant and advocate of economic reform and greater dialogue with the West.

So we are just taking Ahmadinejad's bait??...lousy president galvinizes his base by baiting the one unifying enemy...the U.S.?

If we just shut up will he just go away?

Why should we focus on Iran instead of trying to figure out how to takeout the ISI in Pakistan that organizes most of the terrorists, considering Iran is no Germany?