White House press secretary Jay Carney explaining why they will continue nuke talks with Iran, in the face of continued efforts by that state to get missiles to HAMAS, Hizballah and others whose clearly stated goal is to eliminate Israel.
By the way, what does ‘stand up’ actually mean in terms of action?
Israel seized the ship bringing longer ranged, more effective offensive surface to surface missiles to HAMAS.
I have seen all this before. All during the time of START treaties, from the 70’s onward, from it’s very beginning, we were faced with a USSR at that time whose KGB DID enhance the activities of terrorist groups in Italy and other places. We also found them cheating when they could get away with it, and the risk was worth the gain.
We always justified looking the other way (as we are doing now with Russia on start treaties, btw) by telling ourselves the gains in these treaties were too important to allow distraction from the main goal.
If that is so, then holding the other party to account would force them to give up their other activities in order to achieve the goal important to them.
The same rule holds now.
If Iran is NOT going to give up the idea of enforcing the elimination of an important American ally, because it is more important to them then negotiating a just solution to their decades long search for a weapon to do just that, then what conclusion is the only available one?
We may have the best weapons (thought that edge is rapidly evaporating). We may have the best trained men (though that will evaporate as budgets eliminate the costs of training extensively). We may have the MOST weapons (though cuts to acquisition of weapons such as the Tomahawk are cut from 784 in the next several years to )NE HUNDRED). But as negotiators our people are filled with fear that negotiations might fail and therefore their purpose in life is a failure.
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