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Does The Public Favor Nuclear Iran?

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No! So What Are They Willing To Do About It? The Democrat leadership led by Nancy Pelosi and the far left would lead you to believe that the American public has no stomach for conflict when it comes to protecting our national security, and that we believe limited dangers exist from abroad. They would say that it is time for the country to get back to our knitting and focus on the real priorities, healthcare and the government takeover of the industry of the day. 

 
 
I suppose that by not having to worry about the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Iranian nukes, Pelosi would then have the time to go after rogue Congressmen such as Charlie Rangel who have flaunted the system and most likely broken the law, and to clean up the pigsty known as Washington. For the Democrats, it seems that an acceptable foreign policy would be to talk, threaten, sanction and just use rhetoric as our weapon of choice. 

 
 
As their theory goes, if we leave the bad guys alone, they will leave us alone as well. Is it really our place to limit the nuclear development of countries? The United States has them and Israel has them, so who are we to tell another sovereign government what to do? Additionally, if we use our superpower, wouldn't we be just as bad as our last President? This seems to be the train of thought from the people that were put in Washington with the task of protecting the citizens and interests of the United States. Their reality is as farcical as it is frightening.

 
 
There Is Hope!

 
There may be some hope on the horizon.
 
It is possible that once the focus of the administration can move from the healthcare debate, it may finally take a hard look at the mundane matters overseas. Perhaps by then we will have a strategy in place for Afghanistan assuming all of the Presidents men can agree, and maybe, just maybe, the Obama administration will look to get tough with Iran. My reasoning for this is more political than military.
 
 
When the poll-watching politicians come to realize that there may actually be bi-partisan agreement for serious action against Iranian nukes, so then will they (see chart above).  Sanctions and negotiations seem obviously destined to fail (a fact agreed to by the public in the chart on the right), but will the United States force Israel to go it alone in the destruction of the Iranian nuclear capability? It appears that Obama might, but the American public, although a little slow on the uptake, is beginning to realize that military action will be required to take out Iran’s nuclear risk to the world.
 
The noise taking place right now in which Iran is ostensibly allowing inspections of their installations is simply an opportunity for both sides to buy time. Obama for political reasons, and Iran to continue on its merry way to weapons of mass destruction. My feeling and my hope is that in some way the United States will give tacit approval to Israel to strike, and/or potentially be forced to go along for the ride.  Stay tuned.
 

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Michael Haltman writes The Political Commentator, with articles having been picked up by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Sun-Times and Houston Chronicle. He focuses much of his writing on national security, the war on terror, the presidency and politics as usual. Living in...

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