The Obama Deadline Has Been Reached; Time For Truth or Consequences
The Obama administration set a December 31, 2009 deadline for the Iranian government to come clean on its nuclear ambitions, and to agree to the plan of shipping uranium out of country for enrichment. Failing that, the United States has declared it stands ready to impose tough new sanctions.
Ineffectiveness Of Sanctions
It has already been proven that sanctions generate no leverage on Iran, as they are currently in the midst of violating all that are in effect now. The point though, is that should the U.S. fail to act at this point, it would be just one more indication to Iran and the world that the United States is a country that can be pushed around with little fear of any meaningful retribution. Other than a well worded speech that is.
Now that a forgettable year for President Obama is in the books, he owes it to himself, but more importantly the world, to begin to act as if he is the Commander-in-Chief of the worlds last remaining superpower. Which he is, but seems to resist the idea.
Our "allies" Russia and China have indicated that they don't see the need for economic sanctions, and should we decide to act it could very well need to be on a unilateral basis. This would fly in the face of everything that President Obama has stood for in his first year in office, so it is now time for him to step up and prove the critics wrong. Prove that he is the right man for the job. Prove that he is about more than just rhetoric. Prove that he is tough and that he wants America to win.
Prove that he is the President of the United States!
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"Prove that he is about more than just rhetoric. Prove that he is tough and that he wants America to win."
Good Luck! Don't hold your breath.
What nonsense, Mr. Haltman sounds like a teenager attempting to urge another into a fight that he has no stomach for undertaking himself.
Almost no one wants to hear what the Bible says. But, if you do ... Obama will end up putting a Naval Blockade on Iran. Iran, who has prepared an ambush, will attack the fleet which will cause Obama to use nuclear weapons and start WW3.
The Iranian nuclear programs all stem from the Atoms for Peace programs instituted by the United States under Eisenhower (1953) giving Iran its first nuclear reactor. As the worlds energy resources dwindle the need to maintain a monopoly on energy has prompted the US to proffer fear of the Iranians having nuclear power and or capabilities. In order avoid a World War a counter to the US propaganda machine is required in this case the counter may prove to be ineffective, but it should be known in order to provide at least some reference to the insanity proliferated by US over the course of it's history of attempting to maintain an unsustainable hegemony. We would be better suited to narcotics proliferation at least the human agony comes in defined doses.
you sound nothing but evil,iran is nothing you making out to be just look at last 100 years and you will know how many inocent people died by europeans and americans in comparison iran has not got legs to stand with them
Iran shud get ready for a great fall.they will b internally turn apart.cant it c clearly dat its people are sick of the brutality of the government.even the countries who seem to support them rite now will of course disappoint them in thier crises.
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