EU3 getting chapped with Iran.

Putin Urges Caution as Nations Debate How to Deal With Iran - New York Times

Its beginning to appear that the route of diplomacy with Iran is failing. Appeasement, bribery, and stern rebukes just aren't having the desired effect on Iran's nuclear ambitions. Referring the matter to the UN Security Council is generally the last stage of diplomacy. Judging from the past I predict failure again, but with a few more months gone past. Try as I might, I just can't think of any good resolution to this problem. Allowing Iran to make as many atomic bombs as they like is just plain foolish. Mahmoud "David Koresh" Ahmadinejad has a serious jones for the whole apocalypse theology thing and that just can't be good for any of us. He seems to embrace the national version of "suicide-by-cop" entirely too much. On the other hand, a military resolution is fraught with peril at every step. What a mess. In any event, it appears that Europe (or at least the EU3) have almost exhausted their seemingly unlimited patience. From the NYT;

Still, the diplomatic initiative is remarkable in that Britain, France and
Germany - the three countries that had forged a nuclear agreement with Iran in
November 2004 under which it froze most of its nuclear activities - are now in
lock-step with the United States.

Lock-step isn't how I'd describe it. (gratuitous shot at the NYT) I realize that our friends at the NYT can't really believe that GW Bush and Europe might have congruent interests and beliefs, but the evidence is right there. Anyway Europeans in general couldn't possibly sleep well thinking of Shahab-4s packing kilotons of whoop-ass pointed at them. European governments haven't been terribly popular with the radical Islamic crowd of late and lets not forget where the Crusades originated. I'm sure that Ahmadinejad remembers. I'm guessing that he would love to remind us all.
By the way, when the NYT originally posted this article, the headline read "Putin Urges Caution as Nations Debate How to Deal With Iraq." If I had a dollar for every time I made that mistake when ranting with my friends...