RSSIran: What Credibility Do The Words Of This Man Have?
Michael Haltman | November 16, 2009
Not Ahmadinejad But Barack Obama
I don't know about the rest of you, but the fact that Iran is running this show, making the international community look like fools on the subject of the nuclear armament of this rogue country is extremely troubling. It is unfortunately very obvious that Iran is going to be able to play out the string due to the United States lack of resolve and the double dealing of our negotiating partners.
(Fox News) "President Obama told Iran Sunday that the international community will not wait in perpetuity for the regime respond to a UN offer over its nuclear program. "We are now running out of time with respect to that approach," he said, sitting alongside Russian President Dmitri Medvedev."
Unfortunately, when the time comes that the patience runs out our next step will be sanctions in the hands of the impotent United Nations, along with our partners who will likely go back door to violate them. But first let's look at the time factor.
I suppose that the underlying question regarding President Obama's statement would be just how big the hourglass filled with sand is. Is it an egg timer, or as big as all outdoors. Judging by his decision making prowess concerning troop deployment to Afghanistan, why would one believe that his definition of time is anything more than just another open ended statement. There is a lot of space between today and in perpetuity, and it is anyones guess where President Obama would be on that timeline. By the time any credible action is taken the Iranian missiles could already be airborne. Or worse the nukes that they develop could be in the suitcase of a terrorist making his or her way to a world city.
While both the Iranian and Afghan policy decisions are complex and critical, Iran has many more moving parts to the extent that coalition building is required and there is an unknown involved as to just how close that country is to deployable nuclear weapons. And what exactly is the President's resolve to make a decision that may involve a unilateral move as our allies China and Russia are playing both sides of the issue?
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