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Posted on 04/21/2010 9:43:20 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
SINGAPORE – The U.S. has ruled out a military strike against Iran's nuclear program any time soon, hoping instead negotiations and United Nations sanctions will prevent the Middle East nation from developing nuclear weapons, a top U.S. defense department official said Wednesday.
"Military force is an option of last resort," Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy said during a press briefing in Singapore. "It's off the table in the near term."
The U.S. and its allies fear Tehran is using its nuclear program to build arms. Iran denies the charges, and says its program only aims to generate electricity.
"Right now the focus is a combination of engagement and pressure in the form of sanctions," Flournoy said. "We have not seen Iran engage productively in response."
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Critical, breaking 10-yr old news.
One muzzie standing up for other muzzies.
This is not good diplomacy.
Not that this is any big surprise with this administration, but why announce our strategy to the world and Iran? Are they on dope?
They're too busy laughing at the regime of Hussein Obama.
Sanctions? Schmanctions!
every day, we lose a soldier or an ally does , courtesy of a rogue regime, a radical Islamist regime.
and how do we proceed? .. or how should I say, how does our regime proceed?
like it’s the second coming of ‘Peace in Our Times’ as we wield ‘soft power’ to battle our openly avowed enemies.
It’s either rope-a-dope or they are smoking hemp rope in the WH strategery room.
It’s a re-affirmation of our ‘be nice and carry a pom pom, not a stick’ policy.
While I'll agree that military force is an option of last resort, I would have thought that we had reached that point a couple years ago with Iran. The near term is all that we have, and even the Community-Organizer-in-Chief's spokesperson admits that Iran has not engaged productively in the "negotiations". Either this announcement is a clear signal to Israel that they are the free world's only hope, or it's a clear signal to the radical Islamists that they won on November 4, 2008. I will pray for the free world.
The list, pin
Yea - that always helps.
EXACTLY!!! islam IS EVIL... AS IS THIS REGIME!
LLS
So why sign a nuclear arms treaty if you say you’ll never use them anyways....
Next will come Obama’s promise that if they nuke us we won’t nuke them back. /sarc
This guy is not an authoritative source.
I believe your /sarc tag is out of place with that statement.
This will all fall to Israel, IMO.
Bebe better be ready to level the entire country of IRAN, and then focus his next strike against Syria.
When the cards are down he will sand with his brother
Time to usher in the caliphate
Today is the day we rejoice! as Americans be proud of our president!
The messiah has just ushered in 1000 years of peace!
~phuque, are we in deep~
Don’t worry Hadji, we will never ever harm you. Even if you attack us directly or by proxy, we won’t do a thing! Now will you please stop trying to make a nuclear bomb and quit funding terrorists? Please?
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