As noted previously, President Obama had given Iran only until the end of the year to make major concessions on their nuclear program, or they would face a new round of "tougher, smarter" sanctions than ever before. What's with that? Isn't Iran's time up?
Oh, wait. President Obama was really hoping that China would be on board with the sanctions program. And they're not. Security Council resolutions are out of the question So, now what? Will the president assemble a "coalition of the willing" to impose sanctions outside of the U.N.? Or will he do that cowboy thing and go it alone?
Probably not. Really, as Hillary said, the only purpose for further sanctions in the Obama foreign policy was to force Iran back to the negotiation table anyway. That's great. Everyone loves a good, tough negotiation. Especially when you have no leverage.
Lots of people have formed the opinion that the Obama administration has reconciled itself to Iran actually possessing nuclear weapons. They think that they can deter the actual use of the weapons just like the Soviets were deterred. Or in the way that North Korea has been deterred.
Hope has its place, but there is no hope that Iran will abandon its nuclear weapons program. My hope is that President Obama snaps out of it.
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