The New York Times advises Iran Strategy Stirs Debate at White House
The debate has pitted Ms. Rice and her deputies, who appear to be winning so far, against the few remaining hawks inside the administration, especially those in Vice President Dick Cheney’s office who, according to some people familiar with the discussions, are pressing for greater consideration of military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.
[..] But the fallout from the Iraq war has severely limited the Bush administration’s ability to maneuver on the Iran nuclear issue and has left many in the administration, and certainly America’s allies and critics in Europe, firmly against military strikes on Iran.
[..] the question at the core of the debate within the administration is when and whether it makes sense to shift course.
Ted,
I think you headline on this article should have been,”Washington Politicians Lack Resolve To Bomb Iran”.
From what I am seeing, Washington politicians lack the resolve to do anything except the resolve of personally destroying reputations and careers.
A few months ago I got kicked off redstate.com because I advocated the bombing of cultist sites such as Medina and Mecca if another 9/11 occurred. Frankly I felt we should have done that on 9/12 or 9/13, to gain the attention of “moderate” Islamists that we were not going to put up with their anti-American, anti-Semitism or anti Western attitude from a bunch of 7th century dress wearing idiots.
All you have to do is look at what is happening on our border with Mexico. We are coming close to having a Gaza strip from Brownsville to San Diego, controlled by drug lords and terrorists. The Abas government is in Mexico City, totally unresponsive to their norther border states; totally unresponsive in removing ZETA run terrorist training camps within those states (something that the US governmemt is aware of as well).
But you are right, there is a lack of resolve in Washington to bomb Iran. And one day, I think, in the near future, we may be very sorry that we have allowed our liberals to permeate our government.
Mohamed ElBaradei, an Egyptian diplomat and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) could not have found better supporters then the #1 and #2 heads of the American State Department, Condi Rice and Nicholas Burns the architect of America’s strategic policies regarding Iran.
It is not an act of madness at all to attack Iran, first as an act of revenge, vengeance and retribution for its ongoing murderous and damaging attacks via its terrorist proxies against America and Israel and secondly to put a halt to Iran’s power and nuclear ambitions.
All talk has failed to curb Iran. Even Condi Rice could not catch up to any Iranian representative in the hallways of the last international conference to try for the umpteenth time to bend their ears, deaf to anything America has to say in the futile hope that she, the great Condi Rice could thereby bend Iran’s will to turn to peace.
To not attack Iran is a maddening act of madness.