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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
Actually, after the way the bush administration handled the runup to Iraq and has botched the occupation, it's not surprise the rest of the world (other than the UK) has no stomach for military action. This nonsense about "let the sanctions work first" or "let diplomacy work first" may be really just utter bullshit - but it's the only bullshit left.*
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No its not. The world can't attack Iran because doing so would galvanize its populus - which we've worked so hard for so long to massage into an adversarial position against the ruling mullahs - behind its religious leaders.
Iran will eventually turn into a modernized govt. The trick we're trying to work here is to allow it to do so while also preventing it from getting nukes. Cheney's "threats" are bluffs, and I'm not sure their good ones. The rest of the world is smartly assuring Iran that it need not worry about the crap Dick is saying to avoid Dick's statement providing a rallying cry for support for the religious leaders.
We're not going to kill a revolution over there. Why do you think we've stopped Israel from bombing Iran for the past two years? You think the Israelis don't already know eactly where each piece of Iran's nuke program is located? They could blow Iran's nuke program back to 1970, but we won't let them.
Are the US and Britain playing good cop, bad cop her? I don't know.
