Another day, another usless whine from the choir.
Confront the root causes aggressively, with all we've got. To summarize this article, quit pulling punches and appeasing - Start protecting national, and in this case international, security. If you've got your bunker built already feel free to nap through legitimate assessments of potential future catastrophe. The rest of us are presumed to be responsible for our own destiny and have an obligation to inform our representatives of threats to our liberty and national security.
BUNKER INVENTORY
The solution is to issue more meaningless reprimands until NYC is a smoking crater. Then we'll see fit to remove the mullahs from power. In the meantime, we'll keep trying to shove the 900 lb. gorilla of Iraq into a size three pair of jeans and call it a democracy.
1) The US and EU would never have made this offer to Iran, and if (hypothetically) we had been stupid enough to do make a bad offer then
2) Iran would have accepted this offer by now, which they have not done.
Bush and his staff are smart people, and Putin is a brilliant guy who certainly does not want a nuclear-armed Iran on his southern border. I think some of the relevant technical information about this offer is classified and/or very advanced scientific information and the writer doesn't have the background & security clearance needed to offer an informed opinion on this issue.