Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:48:37 PM
This is where I sometimes think that this White House has gone from willful ignorance to 'what the hell are they smoking?'
Iran has used the Obama tenure as a rest and refresh time for their nuclear program. We've been nice to them, and they've stuck it to us every time somebody from there has a press conference. We're trying to get the UN to agree on sanctions. Really tough ones this time (where have I hear that before?). China is exploring helping us this time, instead of declaring a priori that there was a Security Council veto coming.
In the meantime, Isreal didn't even bother coming to the recent nuclear summit. They got treated like trash at the White House a month ago. Obama doesn't like what Netenyahu is saying? You can stay here at the White House if you want, but find your own dinner. When can you remember that one happening? To anyone at the White House? Not even with LBJ, folks.
Now comes the sad and the scary. Iran is set to go nuclear THIS YEAR. That's 2010, folks. They have had over 8000 centrifuges going for over a year now, according to Iranian Presidential proclamation. That is beyond sanctions. It has reached the point where a military solution may well be the only option left. The sad part? There are people in this administartion who are against sanctions because it would hurt the Iranian people, and not just the political leadership. D-uh! What do you all think the point is?
Now the scary part: there are trial balloons being floated about regarding approaching the Iranian proliferation problem by tacitly creating a moral equivalence between Iran and Isreal both having nuclear weapons! Equivalent? The only stable ally in the region for the last half century and the country that broke into our embassy and held everybody hostage for a well over a year?
What kind of medication do you have to mix to make sense of that one?