Yousef Al-Otaiba, the ambassador from the United Arab Emirates to the United States, on July 6 endorsed US bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, Al-Otaiba said: "It's a cost-benefit analysis. There will be consequences, there will be a backlash and there will be problems with people protesting and rioting and very unhappy that there is an outside force attacking a Muslim country; that is going to happen no matter what." But “we can’t live with a nuclear Iran.”
He directly challenged the notion, gaining ground in US policy circles in the wake of US fecklessness, that a nuclear mullocracy could be contained: "Countries in the region view the Iran threat very differently, I can only speak for the U.A.E., but talk of containment and deterrence really concerns me and makes me very nervous. Why should I be led to believe that deterrence or containment will work? Iran doesn't have a nuclear power now, but we're unable to contain them and their behavior in the region. What makes me think that once they have a nuclear program, we're going to be able to be more successful in containing them?”
Al-Otaiba reiterated the age-old truth--small countries, in the absence of dependable allies, of necessity hedge their bets: "There are many countries in the region who, if they lack the assurance the U.S. is willing to confront Iran, they will start running for cover towards Iran. Small, rich, vulnerable countries in the region do not want to be the ones who stick their finger in the big bully's eye, if nobody's going to come to their support."
One hopes President Obama is listening. There is a significant rift in the Middle East, with Syria, Lebanon and Turkey cozying up to Iran; but with the majority of countries, led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt, wishing and waiting for strong US leadership to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
Robert Frost once wryly described a liberal as a person too open-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. America needs to clearly take its own side, and that of its allies, in the war against Islamism, of which Iran is the premiere exponent.
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If the UAE thinks we should bomb Iran, then perhaps we should not. It is clear that if the UAE endorses it, then it is a bad idea. Or maybe, as long as we are bombing Iran, we might want to bomb Saudi Arabia too. At least half of the world's troubles stem from nitwit religious fanatics funded by by the Saudis, including a.Osama
You zionists just can't wait for us to take action against Iran so your precious Israel can walk away unscathed.
We in the United States are tired of fighting Israel's wars.
It's time you watched your own death toll rise instead of our sons and daughters.
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this bs written by another jew maggot, no one falls for this nonsense especially when uae media never report such thing. epic fail for you jewbags
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