What problem?
Posted on 12/23/2009 5:25:34 AM PST by nuconvert
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From the very first days of the post-election violence, Western leaders, with President Obama in the van, chose circumspection over condemnation. Nothing — no protests about human rights abuses — could get in the way of securing a deal with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over Iran’s programme to create a nuclear bomb. What do we have to show for this venal bargain? Very little.
Untenable as this ought to be, strategically as well as morally, a more damning prospect still is emerging. The West may be about to provide a dying regime with a lifeline at the moment of its greatest vulnerability. Even if intensified sanctions forced the regime to comply with Western demands over its nuclear project — an unlikely prospect — an agreement between Tehran and the West would benefit one party above all: President Ahmadinejad and his illegitimate Government.
Deeper sanctions would be welcomed by Mr Ahmadinejad — it would allow him to appeal to nationalist sentiment and tighten his grip on the economy. (Of course, a military attack would be the ultimate gift to the theocracy, something hardline elements of the regime are reportedly seeking actively to provoke.) Worse still, an agreement would enable the leadership to claim victory without actually impeding its repressive rule. Having lost legitimacy in the streets of its own cities, the regime is being offered a chance to regain it, in different form, in the halls of the United Nations. With its very existence in the balance, pressure on the regime to freeze its nuclear programme is not a threat, but an opportunity to regain international credibility.
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Get rid of the regime, and you get rid of the problem of nukes.
What problem?
We are so screwed. I do not see any way out of this that does not result in the deaths of many, many innocent people. Talk, Talk, Talk. Its Tic-Talk. The clock is ticking, and we just talk to people who lie for a living. Tic-Talk.
Excellent. Right on the mark.
Israel will invoke the Sampson option before national suicide, if that’s what it takes. Mossad knows how close the Iranians are to making a workable design.
I have been saying the same thing for years. If we have to resort to a military strike target the regime and Republican Guard not the facilities or capital infrastructure. Let the people and most importantly the regular Iranian military know that we are not targeting them and encourage a revolt.
Without the regular Iranian forces to step in the independence movement will be annihilated after any US or Israeli strike.
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