The more we TALK about it, the more we will allow the ENTIRE diplomatic community to organize into a massive anti-US alliance.
Agreed. I suspect the U.S. is talking so much right now not to get some sort of "coalition of the willing" together but as a last-ditch effort to (hopefully) put enough pressure on the Iranians to get them to abandon their nuke ambitions. .....an effort that most likely won't work on the Mullahs and their lapdog, but could very well spark the Iranian opposition elements to take some action. Hard to say. A longshot, for sure.
Yeah, if we can't goad the Iranians in militarily we can always manufacture a pretext without much difficulty. If it's going to happen it'll happen soon, imo. ....before summer.
A nuclear Iran, as I suspect you'd agree, is completely unacceptable.
A nuclear Iran, like a nuclear North Korea, a nuclear Pakistan, a nuclear Red China and a nuclear Soviet Union, is completely and totally unacceptable.
So's death.
Accepting the unacceptable is one of the thing big boys have to do sometimes.
This will be the second time in a couple of years.
After 9/11, instead of declaring war we declared an "Axis of Evil". Since that time, one of the the three was taken down and is now in a civil war that is pulling the US down in its undertow, and the other two either have become or are becoming nuclear powers.
Can't walk that cat back. But we COULD still WIN in Iraq, if we would do the obvious thing. Unfortunately, the obvious thing that would win, the President and the national security team have said is "unacceptable". Therefore, because they will not accept the unacceptable in Iraq, we will accept the unacceptable in Iran.
Sad but true.