Diplomacy. What a novel idea.
http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2714Gates: Military Strike On Iran Will Not Work
by: Chris LeJeune
Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 17:47:34 PM EDT
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said publicly today what most of us already know. A military strike on Iran would do more harm than good.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday a military strike on Iran's nuclear program would not stop that country from pursuing the development of a nuclear weapon.
Gates told a Senate panel that a military option would only delay Iran's nuclear ambitions and drive the program further underground, making it more difficult to monitor, he said.
Of course, this also neglects the reports from our own intelligence services that Iran is not pursuing nuclear weaponry. Regardless of the intelligence, however,
a military solution would not be the best option. Instead, SECDEF Gates suggests using diplomacy. He said the better option would be for the United States and its allies to convince Iran that building a nuclear program would start an arms race that would leave the country less secure.
"Their security interests are actually badly served by trying to have nuclear weapons," Gates said. "They will start a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and they will be less secure at the end than they are now."
In other words, Secretary Gates is suggesting that talking to the Iranian leaders and pursuing a diplomatic response would be more productive than a military strike. I do not see this influencing the right-wing opinion of him, however. They already don't like him.
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