As part of a new, despot-pleasing goodie package, the European Union wants the United States to sell Iran new airplanes so that it can modernize its decades old fleet. They already fell for this once — back in 2005, the Bush administration signed an order allowing the U.S. to sell aircraft spare parts to the maligned regime as part of an earlier incentive design to halt uranium enrichment. Given that Presidenti Ahmadinejad has already refuted the offer before it has even been presented, doing such a thing wouldn’t make sense.

The U.S. may not be officially at war with Iran, but our planes are killing their officials frequently. Not with missiles, but by crashing. Rusty old planes have become our most useful weapon! In December, 2005, a military transport plane crashed in Tehran. In January, 2006, a Falcon jet spiraled downward, killing the commander of the Revolutionary Guards ground forces along with other officers. And that’s just in recent times!

To me, this is a compelling argument for letting the mullahs fly at their own risk. They wanted to cut off the outside world — so be it. Retract that executive order that allows the selling of parts too. Who needs to drop bombs when they’re falling out of the sky all by themselves?… Besides, I find it rather fitting that Iranian Islamic extremists are getting the unwanted opportunity to die in airplanes against their will.