In diplomacy, always leave your adversary an honorable avenue of retreat.
Fifty years ago this October, to resolve a Cuban missile crisis that had brought us to the brink of nuclear war, JFK did that.
He conveyed to Nikita Khrushchev, secretly, that if the Soviet Union pulled its nuclear missiles out of Cuba, the United States would soon after pull its Jupiter missiles out of Italy and Turkey.
Is the United States willing to allow Iran an honorable avenue of retreat, if it halts enrichment of uranium to 20 percent and permits intrusive inspections of all its nuclear facilities? Or are U.S. sanctions designed to bring about not a negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue, but regime change, the fall of the Islamic Republic and its replacement by a more pliable regime?
If the latter is the case, we are likely headed for war with Iran, even as our refusal to negotiate with Tokyo, whose oil we cut off in the summer of 1941, led to Pearl Harbor.
What would cause anyone to believe Iran is willing to negotiate?
There are the fatwas by the ayatollahs against nuclear weapons and the consensus by 16 U.S. intelligence agencies in 2007, reaffirmed in 2011, that Iran has no nuclear weapons program.
6 comments:
Of course we are headed for war with Iran (or somebody)! Its an election year, isn't it?...
There not people their camel herders.
Every politicians creed:"Never let a good crisis go to waste!"
Like Iraq,Iran has not been able to break through the politics.They've tried and tried,but have encountered a US political agenda that does not include negotiations.US citizens in general are not privvy to any Iranian intentions to resolve this peacefully.We are being force fed manufactured information re their nuclear program.In reality Iran is no threat unless THEY are attacked first.At that point any self respecting country would retalliate.Stop believing the evil you hear about Iran.They mean no harm.They just want to remove themselves from the stone age.Nuclear generated electricity is their way out.
America loves war. Iran has never been a threat to us. It's like the math wiz fighting the hole football team.
I think we should give them a thermonuclear device for free...
12:15 and 1:09
wow, talk about head in the sand?
What planet are you on?
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