Iran Can’t Be Trusted
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Here’s the latest on talks with Iran:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton say last week’s historic joint talks with Iran were a limited success.
Clinton says the session in Geneva yielded three agreements that buy time for the U.S. to assess Iran’s seriousness about negotiations. In the meantime, she says the U.S. will continue to move toward additional sanctions if Iran won’t back off from its nuclear program.
Anyone who has paid any attention to Iran over the past thirty years knows that these talks will fail. It doesn’t matter who conducts the talks, what incentives are offered, or what threats are made, Iran will continue to pursue nuclear weapons.
They see the acquisition of these weapons as their ticket to respectability among the world’s powers, maybe even parity with the United States. They also see them as the best way to eliminate Israel in one fell swoop.
The best chance we had of destabilizing the Iranian government was just after the elections when the people of Iran were contesting the results. A show of support for the people who were protesting at that time could have encouraged them to take the next step. However, because the current occupant of the White House has absolutely no clue with regards to Foreign Policy, nothing was done and the protests faded. I have been saying for months how dangerous it was having someone in the White House who doesn’t know what he’s doing, and now the world knows.
The only serious option left on the table now is military action. You can talk until you’re blue in the face, but you’ll never get anywhere with Iran. They’ll do what they always do; play for time by saying the right things while all the while continuing to do whatever they want. Strategic bombing of Iran’s two uranium refining facilities, as well as a few of their larger missile launching sites, would be enough to get their attention and slow their nuclear ambitions to a crawl. Then, we could deal with them from a position of strength rather than weakness. Strength is, after all, the only real thing which Iran understands.
Unfortunately, the current occupant of the White House still thinks he can talk his way out of anything. So, the rest of us can all look forward to a nuclear-armed Iran in the not-too-distant future. Yes we can!
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