[IonInsights]

Dangerous State Department wishful thinking published in the LA Times.

[dogcaller]

Reminds me of the 'kremlinologists' who were always pronouncing this or that on changes in the Soviet leadership...they were always wrong but got plenty of MSM coverage.

[carl in alaska]

Indeed, this is just more naive wishful thinking by Ivy League liberals at the State Department. Last week Condi Rice said that it's time for the world to make some decisions about Iran and time for the US to make some decisions too. I saw on another thread that Israeli intelligence believes Iran is only 12-24 months from being able to produce a working nuclear bomb. It looks like this is going to end in an attack by the US, Britain and possibly a few other allies that will completely destroy or disable the Iranian nuclear facilities.

While I'm sure Bush would rather wait until after the 2006 election, we may not have that much time to wait because Iran is moving rapidly to upgrade its air defenses to make the task more difficult. The libs in the State Dept. really don't understand the threat from nuclear weapons in the wrong hands, but fortunately Bush & Cheney appear to fully understand the severity of this threat.