If Sh** hits the fan anytime soon, especially if Isreal launces preemptive strikes, everyone is going to blame the U.S, even when it is clear to me that lack of action on account of other countries within the UN is to blame.

This is the ‘whole problem with the UN’. It will never work, because we all have different ‘interests’, we all have different needs, and countries are not going to go against their ‘best interests’. Pretty soon it becomes a paper tiger, nobody takes it serious because they are ‘bound by inaction’ by competing interests. There were bribes (oil-for-food, oil kickbacks to some individuals including an official from France) from Saddam to people in the UN to vote ‘NO’ to the resolution and to work to lift the sanctions….

Add to that the level of corruption that is going on within the UN and we have a ‘big problem’. How does it get corrected? We only have a voice in the UN, who has the authority to correct the problem? What if they decide that they don’t want to ‘listen’?

The UN has to be overhauled and some serious changes need to be made before they have any credibility. I mean, come on, just because you don’t use the ‘genocide’ word, you don’t have to do anything? Just because you have somebody on the council that is being bribed by a rogue nation, they can thwart the wishes of most of the countries? How about punishment for wrong doing???

Russia is practically building nuclear bombs for the iranians, China is building natural gas pipelines, who knows what french companies are doing. The UN is feckless and obsolete. The Iranian situation would be completely solved in one month if EVERY security council member stood up and boycotted Iran. How can we make China and Russia and Europe give up their investments in Iran? We already have, why can’t they?

I personally think that Iran’s current fundie government will continue their nuclear weapons program unless extreme political pressure is brought to bear on them – and even that may be inadequate.

Fortunately their statements are extreme enough to invite and enable just such an extreme response – we’ll see how things shape up in the near future.

Of course we have no resources left to do anything about it, so we should probably just back off a bit and let the UN or Europe take charge.

“The likelihood of THIS president actually negotiating with and compromising with anyone regarding anything is slim…more likely he’ll bluster useless threats at Iran and then get the guy with the anger management problem at the UN to yell at some people to do it his way or else.”

Just how do you negotiate with someone that wants to ‘wipe you off the map’? What kind of compromise can you make with someone like that?

If you don’t allow muslims to kill Jews who won’t submit, you are violating our right to express our religion which is protected the constitutions of every free nation in the world. That means you are discriminating against muslims and therefore you are “islamaphobic”

I am going to call my CAIR representative and have this website shut down!!

-Allah’u Akbar

With all the extremists in power in Iran I don’t doubt that they will begin issuing nuclear threats and blackmail demands as soon as they’re capable of delivering.

Unfortunately, I have little hope that that really will happen.

Call me what you like, but I rather like the idea that the president of Iran looks over his shoulder when he hears a sudden noise to see if there’s an incoming cruise missile with his name on it.

But I think the real hope for Iran is to keep encouraging — from a distance — the secularist democracy movement.

I’m wondering whether Iran is feeling more empowered by the media drubbing that’s has been occurring with the Iraq situation and views this as a sign of weakness that can be of great advantage to their agenda.

Yes, rhetoric is rhetoric, but there needs to be a vigilance maintained which insures that the situation does not get out of hand. Given the environment right now, there’s a void of effective leadership being demonstrated, much less supported in the international arena. Where there’s a void, there’s something waiting to fill it … that “something” could certainly be aggressive actions by Iran.

Conditions are prime for letting the pendulum swing too far in the opposite direction of appeasement with dangers that will multiply considerably and be far more difficult to counter.