[coloradan]

If only Nixon could go to China, only Obama could nuke Iran. You sort of need the Nobel Peace prize to have enough gravitas to perform such an act.

[Lloyd227]

who writes this crap? I don't recall when I've seen any foreign policy analysis so wrong on so many levels. This is breathtakingly wrong.

Now, having said that... I agree that only Obama COULD nuke Iran and get away with it politically. But it ain't going to happen and this analysis is simply full of crap on practically every paragraph.

[doc1019]

Obama Might Nuke Iran

BS. To nuke anyone you must have cojones, and our president has proven ... he has none. Moochell mayhap, but she is not president.

[Texas Fossil]

Obozo will likely resort to some kind of “Wag the Dog”.

Iran? I doubt it. He would never nuke his muzzie brothers. Especially the basis for the califit.

[A message]

Zero knows only one play on the Iranian situation. It is the punt.

There will be no military action to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, there will be talk, talk, and weak, useless sanctions at the most.

Our president is a coward AND he, like all Democrats, has no interest in actually doing anything to forward American interests.

[Jonty30]

Obama bowing before the king of Saud would indicate to me, if he’s Muslim, he’s Sunni.

So yeah, it would be no problem for him turning Iran into a sea of glass.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Right, and Curtis LeMay was a Quaker pacifist.

[okie01]

Somehow, I'm unimpressed with Mr. Rothkopf's opinion.

For example...

From a domestic political perspective, right now Obama's strong suit is his national security performance.

Who but a whacked-off academic believes that? Or this...

That said, it would be a mistake to think this President would make such a cynical analysis. Should he act on an issue like this, he will do so without making any political calculus.

This President is all about making self-serving cynical political analyses.

Iran and their impending nuclear capability are a vital issue. It deserves better than this nattering drivel.

[Olog-hai]

Never happen. Not from the administration that turned the War on Terror into an “overseas contingency operation” and redefined terror attacks as “man-caused disasters”.

[FredZarguna]

Thanks. On an evening of gloomy political news that article was laugh-out-loud funny. When did the AZ Conservative get a new nom de plume?

[onedoug]

I´d like to see the Kenyan heap nuclear destruction on Iran. It would be very educational, I´m sure.

[mkjessup]

Nick, where in this article does it suggest that 0bama might nuke Iran? I read the whole thing and saw nothing even hinting at that.

The headline is misleading.

Quite frankly, it has always been my contention that the only way to halt Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, let alone regional hegemony, is to drop one or more nukes on them. Iran is in the same grip of fanatical megalomania as were the Japanese prior to the end of World War II and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It took the atomic bombs to literally produce some old school ‘shock and awe’ to smack the Japanese out of their militarist ways.

Iran is in fact, even more fanatical in that their political leadership is seized by Islamic fantasies about the ‘Mahdi’ climbing out of whatever well he’s been hiding in, to return (with Jesus alongside him no less) to wipe out ‘Allah’s enemies, destroy Israel, whatever bullshit it is they have embraced, and being that the entire country is Islamic, even the adherents of that death cult of a ‘religion’ are easily swayed by the more radical practitioners of those beliefs.

10 megatons on Tehran, 5 on Tabriz (the Assahollah Khomeini’s hometown) and 5 on Qom. THAT is the nuclear trifecta that will permanently remove those Persian pricks as any significant force on the world stage.

Unfortunately, 0bama would never take such action. In my opinion, he is secretly hoping Iran WILL drop a nuke on Israel, and considering how recent revelations (due to an open microphone with that joker Sarkozy) have proven that 0bama effectively despises Bibi Netanyahu, the only thing we will see as the mushroom cloud appears over Tel Aviv is a semi-solemn 0bama before the cameras, scripted by the TOTUS as always, ‘condemning’ the Iranian action and pledging to press for further ‘sanctions’ at the U.N. (’Useless Nations’).

[Recovering_Democrat]

Hussein will only attack Iran for votes. It will be an election year move. He embraces those who hate Israel, so it’ll be a tough call for the regime.

[ImNotLying]

He would nuke Arizona before he would nuke Iran.

[rmlew]

But in the end, as dangerous as an attack might be militarily and politically, if the President believes there is no other alternative to stopping Iran from gaining the ability to produce highly enriched uranium and thus manufacture nuclear weapons, he will seriously consider military action and it is hardly a certainty he won't take it. From a domestic political perspective, right now Obama's strong suit is his national security performance. For the first time in years, he has taken the issue away from the Republicans. Right now they simply cannot attack him as being weak or assert they understand defense better. That is why they are so silent on the issue.
Sure we can. We pursued an unauthorized, illegal war to overthrow Khaddafy, following the mistake of some of our NATO allies. We helped overthrow a bad regime, but one that was helping us fight Islamic terrorism and which had ended its active WMD programs. In fact some of the proponents of the war, had wanted to send Libya military aid last year. Instead of analyzing what was going on on the ground and who the players are, we followed the reckless policy of France and helped groups allied to Al Qaeda. Today, Al Qaeda's flag flies over parts of Libya. That is aiding an abetting the enemy time of war. Incompetence and a failure to lead but to rather follow the lunacy of some allies is no excuse. It is a reason to lose an election.

PS. What is with all of these pieces taht don't even contemplate the idea that Iran could be a threat to us with nukes?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It would certainly make for a spectacular October Surprise.

[Karliner]

Obama nuking Iran when he has a ROE stating Americans cannot fart near a muslim, hahahahahahahahahahahaa, oh great satire!