Why steam around the middle east with a boatload of fire power and then tell Iran it is not in our interest to put them back in the 7th century? I thought that is where they wanted to be and needed our help to get there. But, as you say it was a very expensive non-starter. We are so smart at diplomacy it makes you think our pubbies will bail on our freedom loving friends too. I think they are hoping to get an agreement to have our friends shot rather than skinned. I guess that is what the negotiations are about. Can we have Reid and Pelosi shoot our friends just to be on the humanitarian side of the loss in Iraq?
>> Why steam around the middle east with a boatload of fire power and then tell Iran it is not in our interest to put them back in the 7th century?
Speaking of boatloads... the more I think about this whole boatload of crap from Gates and Condi, the more I conclude that it’s a suck-up to the G-8. W wants to polish up his “legacy”, so he’s soothing everyone’s fears just in time for the summit (at the expense of Israel, and possibly our own safety and well-being).