Ignatius on Ahmadinejad

David Ignatius, in his column in the Washington Post, psychoanalyzes Ahmadinejad and I am not sure what to make of his conclusions:

My strongest feeling at the end of his performance was: He may be cocky and eccentric, but don't underestimate him.With a Thursday deadline looming on the nuclear issue, you might expect that Tehran would feel like a garrison town. But it's surprisingly relaxed, and I think that's because most Iranians expect the crisis will be defused somehow. The regime has been putting on a show of defiance as the U.N. deadline approaches, shooting off new missiles in Persian Gulf war games, opening a new heavy-water reactor and festooning downtown streets with banners of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah. But this isn't a militarized country, and it certainly isn't eager for confrontation with America.

There aren’t any good options when it comes to Iran. Philippe Douste Blazy, the French Foreign Minister said that France was ready to talk with Iran provided the focus is on the Nuclear issue. The point is that talking, discussing is the only option available to the "West" and to Nations, which rightly fear that a Nuclear Iran would mean a more dangerous world. It is also true that talking to Iran can only be constructive if the talks are open and if the United States agrees to get involved to bargain with devil in order either to avoid or to postpone confrontation.