[Pox]

As the "proposal" will once again be rejected out of hand by the mad mullahs, what will be the next appeasement, or will someone in D.C. grow a spine?

[jveritas]

Just relax both of you. If Iran does not stop in six months or so building their nuclear weapon program, they will be bombed by us back to the seventh century where they like to be. Iran will not have the nuclear bomb as long as GW Bush is President.

[Cobra64]

will someone in D.C. grow a spine?

I doubt it.

Here's why:

[OldFriend]

I like that the ball is now in Iran's court.

Seemingly no one on this forum is appeasable on any front at all.

[Khepri]

Don't fall for this NYTimes smear piece..."Oh whoa is us"...please...

How about an Israeli take on what's going on?

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1170

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"The US secretary of state said the US was willing to join European allies in direct talks with Iran - provided Iran abandoned its uranium enrichment program. Tehran predictably dismissed the offer as propaganda and presenting no “new and rational solution” to Iran’s nuclear case. The enrichment program would go on, declared Iran’s foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki.

Rice had her answers ready for that response. Anticipating an Iranian brush-off, the US has already begun implementing its own package of sanctions. As Rice put it, “We’re prepared to go either way.”

She also made it clear that the United States would not “swear off ever using military action.”

The two parties are therefore closer to a collision course – first financial and, further down the road, military - than to dialogue. "

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This is nothing more than the Times try to color the administration.