More on Iran

I found this article from a link on Drudge this morning. The Israeli official quoted in the article hits it right on the head in saying:

"The only real way to stop Teheran's race to obtain the bomb apart from military action was through tough economic sanctions that caused the Iranian people to suffer. "Once the people understand that their government is bringing upon them a disaster will they realize that the [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad's regime needs to be replaced," the official said.

Iran, the official said, was doing all it could to stall for time, including holding "pointless" talks with Russia concerning the enrichment of its uranium. "They are just trying to get more time and they will continue lying and deceiving the international community while simultaneously trying to obtain nuclear power,"

I could not agree more with those statements. The only thing that more time and more useless talks are going to do is allow Iran an opportunity to get farther toward their goal. That is one reason why the statements coming out of Russia and China are so curious. They must know that the above is true. I am all for diplomacy if there is a point, but with Iran's current leadership there is none. These are not rational, peaceful people we are dealing with here. I really hope that we or another country have the brass ones to step up and demand that Iran comply. Our problem is Iraq, that killed our credibility and left us limp to a certain extenet politically as to what we are able to do in the Iran situation. There is no win, win here though and we have to accept that first.

Read the whole article here