Posted on 09/29/2010 1:14:15 PM PDT by nuconvert
Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) today delivered a major policy address on “The Future of American Power in the Middle East” at forum hosted by Council on Foreign Relations.
“Certainly the door to the negotiating table should remain open to the Iranians—but it is equally certain that the Iranians must not be rewarded simply for showing up at the table. The test is not whether the Iranian regime is talking, but what the regime is doing. As long as centrifuges are spinning and uranium is being enriched, the pressure from sanctions on Iran must keep growing.”
“It is time for us to take steps that make clear that if diplomatic and economic strategies continue to fail to change Iran’s nuclear policies, a military strike is not just a remote possibility in the abstract, but a real and credible alternative policy that we and our allies are ready to exercise.
“It is time to retire our ambiguous mantra about all options remaining on the table. It is time for our message to our friends and enemies in the region to become clearer: namely, that we will prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability -- by peaceful means if we possibly can, but with military force if we absolutely must. A military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities entails risks and costs, but I am convinced that the risks and costs of allowing Iran to obtain a nuclear weapons capability are much greater.”
“If military action must come, the United States is in the strongest position to confront Iran and manage the regional consequences. This is not a responsibility we should outsource. We can and should coordinate with our many allies who share our interest in stopping a nuclear Iran, but we cannot delegate our global responsibilities to them.”
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Again Joe demonstrates his prowess at proving that talk is cheap in D.C. ——
He caucuses with radical leftists and terrorist sympathizers. Someone should tell him.
Lieberman belongs to that group called liberal interventionists, sometimes called national security democrats, and sometimes called leftwing hawks.
Obama belongs to that group that are called Realists or Pragmatists. The Realists are bipartisan with both democrats and republicans in the group.
The third group of dems are known as left wing pacifists.
Only force will prevent Iran from making a nuclear weapon now.
We need to get out of the power business in the middle east.
Thanks for the feedback. I didn’t know the three groups. Regardless of their stated policy positions, however, the reality is that a majority of Democrats favor ceding US sovereignty to international entities—UN, World Court, world banking regulations and so on. Obama’s referral of Arizona to the Human Rights Commission and the cap and trade system and the move to establish global taxes are cases in point. If the N got the ability to tax us, God help us. DemonRats want to incrementally redistribute our wealth to other nations and want to reduce our ability to defend ourselves. Obama wants to unilaterally disarm, while Russia, Iran and China engage in a new arms race. So regardless what group they are in, they are dominated by radical leftists and terrorist sympathizers. They pretend to defend our country while doing everything to weaken it, sell it out, cripple our economy, strangle it for want of energy, and bring it down from within through destruction of the family unit and traditional vlaues. The heroes of the DemonRat party are Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. And that’s who Lieberman caucuses with.
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