Senator Lugar calls for talks with Iran

DallasBlog.com | Tom Pauken:

“Can the United States afford (both in human and material terms) another war in the Middle East?”

Ed Cognoski responds:

It's a real fix our recent foreign policy has put us in. We've alienated the whole world with our unilateral foreign policy based on pre-emptive war. So, now, when we need the rest of the world's support more than ever to isolate and pressure Iran into backing down from nuclear brinkmanship, no one's there to help us. So, now, when our military is exhausted and stretched to the breaking point in a futile war over non-existence WMDs in Iraq, we are in no position to act in Iran, except with the very weapons we most fear in the hands of terrorists.

What to do. What to do.

If we believe, as Rep Ron Paul (R-TX) recently said, that Iran is not an imminent threat to acquire nuclear weapons, and when they do, will be dissuaded from using them for fear of retaliatory annihilation, then containment, sanctions and diplomacy is the wisest course to pursue.

If we are convinced that a madman is in charge of Iran, bent on speeding the arrive of apocalyptic end times by unleashing nuclear war on the world, then waiting for Iran to strike first will be disastrous for the whole world, not just Iran.

What to do. What to do.