What to Do About Iran -Carol Giacomo
Inside Washington's policy circles these days - in studies, commentaries, meetings, Congressional hearings and conferences - reasonable people from both parties are seriously examining the so-called military option to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program, along with new diplomatic initiatives.
A report by the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center, founded by
four former senators - Republicans Robert Dole and Howard Baker and Democrats Tom Daschle and George Mitchell, explores such strategies as blockading Iran's gasoline imports, but it also says that "a military strike is a feasible option and must remain a last resort."
Ashton Carter, a senior Pentagon official in the Clinton administration, wrote a paper for the Center for a New American Security that asserts military action "is an element of any true option."
(New York Times)
Inside Washington's policy circles these days - in studies, commentaries, meetings, Congressional hearings and conferences - reasonable people from both parties are seriously examining the so-called military option to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program, along with new diplomatic initiatives.
A report by the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center, founded by
four former senators - Republicans Robert Dole and Howard Baker and Democrats Tom Daschle and George Mitchell, explores such strategies as blockading Iran's gasoline imports, but it also says that "a military strike is a feasible option and must remain a last resort."Ashton Carter, a senior Pentagon official in the Clinton administration, wrote a paper for the Center for a New American Security that asserts military action "is an element of any true option."
(New York Times)
1 comment:
None of these people have any credibility, and most stood by as Bush created the current context that empowered Iran, which had remained cowed by Iraq for decades. Howard Baker is much better at managing the theft of an election than he is at convincing me he knows what is best in the MidEast. Eventually, a military option may be necessary, but none of these politicians will have anything to do with it...nor should they.
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