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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Zizek, Angry Man!" |
| Date: |
30 Aug 2006 11:15:51 AM |
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Iran, Beneficiary of Bush's Incompetence |
Iran has not sat idly by.
"While the U.S. has been playing poker in the region, Iran has been playing
chess," says Nadim Shehadi of the British think tank Chatham House, which
has issued a report stating there is "little doubt that Iran has been the
chief beneficiary of the war on terror in the Middle East."
Tomorrow, U.S. policy towards Iran will enter a new phase, as Iran will
likely ignore a U.N. Security Council deadline to suspend aspects of its
nuclear program, and the Bush administration will begin a press for targeted
sanctions. But sanctions will not solve the problem, particularly with oil
at $70 per barrel. On the current course, Iran will become a nuclear weapons
power if it wants to.
The Bush administration urgently needs to commit to harnessing all elements
of U.S. power to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions, including tough sustained
diplomacy, which Vice President Cheney and others seem determined to avoid.
As Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) said recently, the alternative -- a military
strike on Iran -- would be "disastrous, catastrophic," and "would inflame
the Middle East in ways we can't imagine today."
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=177077618&url_num=28&url=http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/pdf/research/mep/Iran0806.pdf
Bush needs to larn sum manurs, duh!
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