Posted on 05/20/2010 4:30:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
It is perfectly obvious that Iran's latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse. Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it continues enriching at an accelerated pace and to a greater purity (20%).
Which is why the French foreign ministry immediately declared that the trumpeted temporary shipping of some Iranian uranium to Turkey will do nothing to halt Iran's nuclear program.
It will, however, make meaningful sanctions more difficult. America's proposed Security Council resolution is already laughably weak — no blacklisting of Iran's central bank, no sanctions against Iran's oil and gas industry, no nonconsensual inspections on the high seas.
Yet Turkey and Brazil — both current members of the Security Council — are so opposed to sanctions that they will not even discuss the resolution. And China will now have a new excuse to weaken it further.
But the deeper meaning of the uranium-export stunt is the brazenness with which Brazil and Turkey gave cover to the mullahs' nuclear ambitions and deliberately undermined U.S. efforts to curb Iran's program.
The real news is that already notorious photo: the president of Brazil, our largest ally in Latin America, and the prime minister of Turkey, for more than half a century the Muslim anchor of NATO, raising hands together with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the most virulently anti-American leader in the world.
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It’s all a pretend game until hostilities break out... No country wants to get involved (until it is too late - see history)...
I know!
We’ll pass a resolution!!
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Sqeeze the UN right here, maybe they’ll pass another one.
The globe is in a state of near anarchy for leadership. Nature abhors a vacuum and it is being filled by others than us, sadly.
Krauthammer is always looking for another opportunity to have a another trillion dollar nation-building war.
Who cares about Iran? If I was the President, I’ll tell the Iranians that we’ll nuke them if they try to do anything funny.
Krauthammer doesn’t want to nuke Iran. He wants to make it into a “democracy.” That will take troops, social workers, and assorted do-gooders. You misunderstand his agenda completely.
Not going to happen.
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