Posted by
Tim Blessing on Monday, June 23, 2008 7:23:11 PM
IRAN AS A PROBLEM.
Iran is caught between its past, present, and future.
Tension with Iran works against us and for the Radicals inside Iran.
If you apply economic sanctions you put 70 million people at risk in terms of famine, pestilence, war, and death.
You have to deal with them as they are now not as they were 30 years ago.
If we have made an opening behind closed doors then it serves to reason to wait them out.
If you disrupt their economy then their population will regress back to the revolutionary era.
Remember, the Islamic Republic of Arabia.
Its a cold world out there and we need all the friends that we can get even if our ability to get along is at a minimum.
Why not ask the Russians to act as mediators?