March 10, 2006

Not Tough Enough

Israel is saying that the US is not tough enough when it comes to Iran.

    The United States has until now not done enough to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a senior Defense Ministry official has told The Jerusalem Post while expressing hope that Wednesday's referral of the Iranian issue to the United Nations Security Council would prove to be effective.

    "America needs to get its act together," the official said. "Until now the US administration has just been talking tough but the time has come for the Americans to begin to take tough action."

    The only real way to stop Teheran's race to obtain the bomb apart from military action was through tough economic sanctions that caused the Iranian people to suffer. "Once the people understand that their government is bringing upon them a disaster will they realize that the [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad's regime needs to be replaced," the official said.


In other words, here's your chance to get the job done, or we will.

If Israel steps up and takes charge of the Iranian situation, the world will breathe a sigh of relief, but the Islamic world will rise up in rage.

Iran Posted by AlexC at March 10, 2006 1:02 PM

So when exactly have economic sanctions caused the people to rise up and change a regime? And hey, the mugger is in your neighborhood, you deal with him.

Posted by: Silence Dogood at March 10, 2006 1:56 PM

Lefties may disagree but American weakness is bad for the world.

I agree that we're not tough enough but it is difficult to see how we could be much more bellicose. The President's poll numbers are down, Iraq is "a quagmire" how can this country be led into a larger and more difficult war?

A commentator on FOXNews used my favorite Gen/Pres Eisenhower dictum: "If a problem is intractable, enlarge it." Perhaps the reason we cannot solve Iraq is that we're not "solving" Iran and Syria.

Scary days.

Posted by: jk at March 10, 2006 2:01 PM

Silence, we only need to look 90 miles to the south. Cuban's rose up and ousted their dictator so many years ago, I forgot. 45 was it?

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