Obama Decided on Containing a Nuclear Iran, BEFORE His Election

Submitted by Dennis Ring (United States), Mar 31, 2010 at 05:35

The stewards of Obama's foreign policy, Powers, Brezinski, Rhodes, etc, all planned containing a nuclear Iran, rather than any sort of military action against Iran, BEFORE the presidential election. They seriously believe that a nuclear Iran can safely be contained, because the Soviet Union was contained, and Brezinski in particular rates the USSR as much more dangerous than the radical Islamic regime in Iran. Not one of the planners of Obama's foreign policy even contemplates the chances of a nuclear Iran handing off nuclear weapons to a terrorist proxy, that can deliver the weaponry by container freight, by fishing boat, by yacht, or it is a backpack bomb, by horseback, camel, or donkey. Iran for its part has been cultivating various splinter groups to stage attacks, so that the Iranian leadership has what is called plausible deniability.

Iran's leaders may be crazy but they are not so crazy as to fire ballistic missiles that would be tracked on radar as soon as they are launched. The route for them will be handing off nuclear weapons to Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, or some branch of Al Queda. Of course the Iranian clerics and the IRG leadership will decamp to Switzerland and Venezuela before any such attack just in case there is retaliation against Tehran.

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