I'm surprised that Reuters even mentioned this, because it might remind people of how incredibly incompetent their beloved Jimmy Carter is?
Despite Carter's love for military dictators, his one attempt at using the military to solve a problem failed before getting anywhere close to the enemy. When the attempt failed, Carter simply gave up.
However, as soon as Reagan took office, Iran released the hostages. Even if Carter's bumbled attempt at a rescue had somehow succeeded, Iran knew it didn't face a serious threat of retaliation from the US with Carter in charge.
We need to remember the lesson we learned back then. Such dictators which build power and influence over their people and the region by flexing their muscles and making threats cannot be dealt with as long as we are unwilling to use sufficient force against them.
We should have learned that lesson from Sadam. The invasion of Iraq should have been a clear warning to such dictators that if they continued to defy the rest of the world, they would be held accountable.
It definitely seemed to work for a short while, but the UN and liberals around the world (especially our media) instant worked to make that success look like a failure, because taking action and holding such dictators accountable.
Most of the government of the world publicly agree that Iran attaining nuclear weapons is unacceptable. However, most of those government are obviously lying. You cannot say that Iran's actions are unacceptable yet say that using force is not an option.
Diplomacy deserves to be given a chance. However, if it is really unacceptable for Iran to attain nukes, then force must be used if diplomacy fails.
The time for disingenuous negotiations is over. It's time to call the liars what they are. It's time to set a deadline on negotiations and don't extend the deadline because of anything less than clear compliance.
Carter is nothing more than Cindy Sheehan with a penis.....if he even has one!