{"id":7879,"date":"2010-08-25T16:32:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T00:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7879"},"modified":"2010-08-25T16:32:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T00:32:25","slug":"wednesday-iran-talking-points-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/wednesday-iran-talking-points-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 25th, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n

Washington Times<\/a><\/em>: In an editorial, the hawkish daily chronicles what it calls, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emergence as a regional hegemon,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d based on its slowly advancing nuclear program and its unveiling of a new line of unmanned aircraft. The editorial cites the Israeli Foreign Ministry in saying that the developments are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153totally unacceptable\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and wonders if the term means as much to President Obama. Coyly attributing two recent mysterious events to Israeli subversion, the Times <\/em>takes comfort that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perhaps \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcunacceptable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 means something after all.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em>: On FP<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shadow Government\u00e2\u20ac\u009d blog, the Foreign Policy Initiative<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jamie Fly admits that the new Iranian reactor at Bushehr \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fails to meet the hype,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but nonetheless reveals a failure in U.S.-Iran policy. He says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a serious exploration of new options, including the military option, is thus in order if the United States remains unwilling to accept a nuclear Iran.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fly also disapprovingly notes Russia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s complicity in the reactor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start-up, and raises questions about Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nuclear time line. On the latter point, Fly wonders \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how close Iran should be allowed to get to a nuclear capability before military action is taken.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Commentary<\/a><\/em>: On the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Contentions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d blog, prolific \u00c3\u00bcber-hawk Jennifer Rubin riffs on a Bret Stephens Wall Street Journal<\/em> column<\/a> asserting that the United States didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t act soon enough to remove Saddam Hussein in Iraq. She extends the logic of Stephens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Twenty Years War\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with Iraq to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Thirty-One Years War that Iran has waged against the United States and the West,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d urging Obama \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to finally engage the enemy, thwart Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nuclear ambitions, and commit ourselves to regime change.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She concludes with a note that recalls the measures taken against Iraq by Bill Clinton, which laid the groundwork for Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s war there: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But perhaps, if Israel buys the world sufficient time (yes, we are down to whether the Jewish state will pick up the slack for the sleeping superpower), the next president will.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Huffington Post<\/a><\/em>: Conservative pundit Tony Blankley lists differences between \u00e2\u20ac\u01531938ers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d those who believe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always 1938 and Hitler always lurks around the corner \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the Obama administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s policies. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So the question today is not whether to appease Iran or not \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but whether Iran is appeasable. And if not appeasable, whether its threat can be defeated with acceptable costs,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d writes Blankley. He concludes that Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strategy is based on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wishful thinking, at best,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the grim assessment of the 1938ers seems sadly more realistic.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 25th, 2010: Washington Times: In an editorial, the hawkish daily chronicles what it calls, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emergence as a regional hegemon,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d based on its slowly advancing nuclear program and its unveiling of a new line of unmanned aircraft. The editorial cites the Israeli Foreign Ministry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7880,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions\/7880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}