Sorry, even though she is far better than the former Chancellor...for a German Chancellor to tell us there can be no military option against an Islamofascist state that is developing nuclear weapons, and that has called for the annihilation of Israel and the Jews...is so historically out of place to be rediculous and insulting. She should have seen the sick irony in her words and never uttered them IMHO.
As far as I am concerned, that is exactly what it is going to come down to and precisely becase of the hand wringing of Germany and the UK, and the complicity of France and Russia...and the almost friendly relations with places like China and Venezuela. As a result of precisely such things, we will end up having to use force or facing a nuclear armed radical islamic nation.
If she really believes that, she is nuts. I think military action is required against Iran, because Iran is instigating the trouble in Iraq. That means Iran is killing our troops and our allies.
"As a result of precisely such things, we will end up having to use force or facing a nuclear armed radical islamic nation."
We will end up facing a nuclear-armed radical Islamist nation, or rather, two: Iran and Pakistan.
And then it will be a race to see if our missile defense really can be brought up to snuff, or if MAD will contain them. MAD does contain the CURRENT Pakistani government, but if (when) Musharraf falls and the radicals take over, will they still be contained?
Israel doesn't have the range or strength to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Only the US can do that. And the big question in the US is not whether Iran will be disarmed, but whether or not the American people will leave the President's party in control of either house of Congress.
Iran is going to get the bomb.
And we'll just have to find out if MAD works with the mullahs.
Probably it will.
But we'll just have to hope.
The German irony is deafening on this one. There WILL be a military solution soon, in spite of any and all euroweenie words to the contrary.
The biggest problem that I see is controlling Frances' nuclear weapons and electrical-generation (nuclear) systems. France is soaked with these islamofacist sewer rats, and there are probably many of them in the Military and Business.
Maybe the islomaniacs will just shut down France when the grownups take action, but I think not...................FRegards