"Death to America!"
Posted on 03/26/2015 7:35:54 AM PDT by Dave346
In theory, comprehensive international sanctions, rigorously enforced and universally adhered to, might have broken the back of Iran’s nuclear program. But the sanctions imposed have not met those criteria. Naturally, Tehran wants to be free of them, but the president’s own director of National Intelligence testified in 2014 that they had not stopped Iran’s progressing its nuclear program. There is now widespread acknowledgment that the rosy 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, which judged that Iran’s weapons program was halted in 2003, was an embarrassment, little more than wishful thinking.
The inescapable conclusion is that Iran will not negotiate away its nuclear program. Nor will sanctions block its building a broad and deep weapons infrastructure. The inconvenient truth is that only military action like Israel’s 1981 attack on Saddam Hussein’s Osirak reactor in Iraq or its 2007 destruction of a Syrian reactor, designed and built by North Korea, can accomplish what is required. Time is terribly short, but a strike can still succeed.
Rendering inoperable the Natanz and Fordow uranium-enrichment installations and the Arak heavy-water production facility and reactor would be priorities. So, too, would be the little-noticed but critical uranium-conversion facility at Isfahan. An attack need not destroy all of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, but by breaking key links in the nuclear-fuel cycle, it could set back its program by three to five years. The United States could do a thorough job of destruction, but Israel alone can do what’s necessary. Such action should be combined with vigorous American support for Iran’s opposition, aimed at regime change in Tehran.
Obama’s fascination with an Iranian nuclear deal always had an air of unreality. But by ignoring the strategic implications of such diplomacy, these talks have triggered a potential wave of nuclear programs. The president’s biggest legacy could be a thoroughly nuclear-weaponized Middle East.
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Thinking the president’s legacy is already pretty much fulfilled,although it might not be what he had in mind. It is what it is,tho.
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Utah, Wyoming... or perhaps even Charleston.
Will Bolton sign up this time? Didn’t he take a student deferment for Vietnam?
Oh joy, another chicken hawk war
How about Bolton send his kids to fight in Persia
But, they will hate us if we do that! They will chant “death to America”!
Oh joy, time for more Pollyanna foreign policy.
No one’s talking about invading Iran.
John Bolton is correct. Attack Iran to stop them from killing millions of people in nuclear bomb attacks on us and Israel.
Dangit! Beat me to it.
The exact opposite of conservatism: Going abroad to seek monsters to destroy.
"Death to America!"
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