...If Israel were to attack Iran, one Iranian response would be to block the Strait of Hormuz...shipping [would be halted] for months. Insurance cover would be refused and owners would fear the risks of sailing...
The Revolutionary Guards are committed to a war against Israel and prepared, in the process, to take on the rest of the world. They have good equipment and operate from the land, sea and air. They will be suicide soldiers, seamen and airmen. If Iran is attacked, Russia and China will supply it with arms.
...The experience of Georgia has given an amber, if not a green, light to Israel and only Bush can switch that to red.
Bush’s legacy would be best served by taking dramatic diplomatic action to prevent a war with Iran. He should publicly warn Israel that the United States will use its air power to prevent it bombing Iran, while announcing that he is sending Rice to Tehran to start negotiating a grand bargain whereby all sanctions would be lifted if Iran forgoes the nuclear weapons option...It would also allow time for Israel either to negotiate a coalition to last until 2010 or to hold elections [???]...Above all, it would be a last act of real statesmanship from Bush who is otherwise destined to end his term a miserable failure.
This reads as the most inept, irrational and utterly appeasingly-sensitized diplomatic suggestion ever to take to print since that Chamberlain fellow waved a piece of paper on a British airfield.
Oh, woe is the world!
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Truly a mealy mouthed pronouncement from a modern day appeaser whose political beliefs are evidenced all too clearly in the final sentence.
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