Posted on 02/08/2010 4:53:19 PM PST by Kaslin
Iran: Incredibly, the Bush national security team's sole holdover has announced Peace in Our Time as the only hope against a nuclear Tehran. There is no defense for Secretary Robert Gates.
Appearing in Paris with the French defense minister on Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates made an announcement to the world that will astonish our friends and embolden our enemies.
"We must still try and find a peaceful way to resolve this issue," Gates said of the never-ending defiance of the free world by Iran's Islamofascist regime as it moves ever closer to becoming a nuclear weapons power.
"The only path that is left to us at this point, it seems to me, is that pressure track," Gates added. "But it will require all of the international community to work together."
Anyone care to hold your breath on that last hope?
After meeting for an hour with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday, Gates and he "agreed that the time has come for the adoption of strong sanctions, in the hope that dialogue will be resumed," a Sarkozy aide said.
The time has come? That must be what passes for black humor in Paris these days. The time for getting tough with the Iranians came years ago.
And anyway, what value does a joint statement from the U.S. and France against Iran have? U.S. diplomats on Monday were putting on a good face about France's decision to send 80 — count 'em — more personnel to help the U.S. with what President Obama has called the central front in the war on al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
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Weakness is not a credential. It is an invitation to disaster.
That is so true
The bully on the block will keep coming until you give him a bloody nose, something these fairies are afraid to do. Do we or do we not have the fire power to level these montains that border Pakistan where all these goat herders are making time with thier flock?
A look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
Ditto and bump.
Gates is just following orders from his boss.
“Neville Chamberlain” Gates. Has he stepped off the plane waving the sheet of paper yet, and screeching “I have his signature on this paper! It is peace in our time!”
I do not council war. But Iran cannot be permitted to develop (or buy) operational nuclear weapons. They must not be allowed to have nuclear tipped nuclear weapons.
What is the solution? Destroy them by any means. Don’t make an issue out of it, just do it. I assume that the capability still exists in the “West” to accomplish the mission.
Why is Gates acting like secretary of state? Did Hillary resign.
“Why is Gates acting like secretary of state?”
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OPINION:
In a liberal (and or in this case, left of left) administration; the talking points and strategies seem to blend in and sound alike.
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