Does this sound familiar?
Iran remained defiant Thursday as a U.N. deadline arrived for it to halt uranium enrichment, and the U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations [the mustache] said unanimity among the Security Council was not needed to take action against Tehran.
Sounds familiar to me. The difference? We don’t have the option of invading Iran and deposing their government. That’s leaves us flailing about.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said an Iranian refusal to freeze uranium enrichment by the deadline would be “very regrettable,” and the international community would be unable to ignore it.
“We have made Iran a very, very good offer,” she during a visit to the Baltic Sea port of Warnemuende, alluding to a package of incentives aimed at persuading Tehran to curb its nuclear activities.
If Iran does not accept, “we will not slam the door shut, but we cannot act as if nothing had happened,” Merkel said, adding that the next step would have to be discussed, but gave no details.
Iran does not appear to be too scared.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi shrugged off the possibility of sanctions, telling state-run television that Iran “will find a way to avoid pressure eventually.”
Only the Bush administration could combine a reputation for bloodthirsty warmongering with a reality of total impotence. It looks like they are going to ask a few countries to join a new coalition of the willing. Those being the countries willing to refrain from selling nuclear technology to Iran and to refuse visas to their nuclear scientists. That will have zero effect on anything. Bush has made us look like fools.
The next step is to blame the Democrats for his impotence.
