Ken Berwitz
Here are the first three paragraphs of the New York Times’ lead
editorial this morning. I have provided a link for you to read
the rest, but this is all I have the stomach to post:
Published: January 29, 2010
Iran has again proved to be a master at playing for time. Six
months after a new diplomatic overture from Washington and its partners,
Tehran has shown
no interest in resolving the dispute over its nuclear program. It is time for
President Obama and other leaders to ratchet up the pressure with tougher
sanctions.
Mr. Obama, who offered a new relationship with
Iran, gave its government until the
end of 2009 to come to the table. In his State of the Union address this week,
he warned Iran’s leaders that they face “growing consequences” if they continue to ignore their
obligations.
Four
years after the United Nations Security Council first demanded that
Iran stop enriching uranium
(usable for nuclear fuel or a bomb), Tehran has thousands of centrifuges spinning.
Washington
plans to soon circulate a new sanctions resolution — the fourth in four
years.
Let’s
think about this:
-Iran has proven itself a master at
playing for time? What did they
do? Something supersedingly clever?
Or did they just do the same thing
they always do: lie to our
faces?
This doesn’t make Iran “a master” at anything. It makes the leaders of our country and
the rest of the west look like a bunch of doofuses who can’t figure out that a
liar lies.
-It’s time for President Obama and other leaders to implement
tougher sanctions? That inherently
suggests that the sanctions they already have implemented are tough, but
just not tough enough. What basis
is there for making such a claim?
Have sanctions stopped Iran for even one second from doing a
thing?
-Yes, Mr. Obama set a deadline of the end of 2009. Iran’s “leadership” ignored Mr.
Obama, thus indicating their assumption that he was a feckless windbag and his “deadline” wouldn’t mean a thing or cost them a penny. They were right.
-Iran goes on
its merry way developing nuclear weapons it fully intends to use on
Israel (ahmadinejad and the mullahs
could not be clearer about this). And our answer, after three sanctions
resolutions didn’t do a thing to stop this is….a fourth sanction
resolution.
Tell
me: what happens if/when
Israel, which a) does not want to be
vaporized and b) cannot possibly assume the rest of the world will do anything
meaningful about those centrifuges, attacks them? How many sanctions will we see then? How many condemnations?
And
don’t doubt that the USA, under President Obama, will
hesitate to be one of the countries joining in the fun.
The
2012 election cannot come fast enough.
Zeke ... ... One strategy for Israel is to attack Iranian OIL WELLS with dirty bombs (even non-nuclear conventional bombs encased with radioactive 'dirty cases'). The radioactivity will make the oil regions deadly to any workers there ... .... ... without oil, Iran is just another windbag.... ... ... ... While it is assumed by all that Israel has 100-200 atomic bombs, it is possible that Israel has developed THERMONUCLEAR bombs -- H-Bombs. These are 100 times as destructive.... ... This is a highly dangerous situation, and the world is doing nothing beyond hand-wringing. It's Nazi Germany remilitarizing the Rhineland again. (01/30/10)