Iran: New Missile Can Reach Israel

Did you see the spokesperson from Iran on the news a day or two ago disavowing that Iran had ambitions to produce nuclear weapons? Conspicuously it was not Ahmadinejad. I always love how supporters of Iran say that Ahmadinejad's position is Iran as President is not all-powerful and that he is only a figurehead. Our President is not all-powerful either, but if he started talking about destroying nations inconditionally for no reason would the world care that he needed Congressional approval?

It will be interesting to see what happens with Iran in the next year or two.

The face of war changes when you are not the only one that can lob a missile into your neighbors back yard.

Is anyone but me on here noticing that events are hurtling towards end times as revealed in the Bible? All of the headline news reads like everything you read about the signs of the end times. I don't know about you, but I'm ready and not wanting to be here when all h*** breaks loose.

Iran is going to be another sore spot for Obama and probably an early tester of his will. We'll see how that turns out for us.

Obama is just the person to reset the past and then present the world with a record of reasonable interactions with Iran. If Iran does not respond reasonably it is their choice, and the whole world will then have a better idea that it is not just Bush being belligerent.

On the other hand, Iran does have a historic reason for behaving pathologically. There is a history of foreign intervention and the destruction of democracy there by the US was a major mistake that took the world down this road. Then we got Iraq to attack them killing over a million of their citizens. What in the hell would we expect. People do not get over stuff like this at the snap of a finger, or as quickly as we can change our President.

This is called tragedy. The only path that can logically be pursued is to hang on and let time pass. Bush administration did not get that. Every time he made a rhetorical attack on Iran the timer gets reset and the scab is picked off the wound.

Americans do not like to be patient, and we do not have a lot of sympathy for those less fortunate of us, or who have been traumatized.

Obama is right to monitor both the nuclear program and terrorist interventions and lower the rhetroic, but standing tall and dealing from strength. The clear instigator is Ahmadinejad, and Ahmadinejad's power comes from this standing up to bullies image he has, as well as his pious Muslim act.

We are going to have to settle for Iran being a global sore spot as long as we and the rest of the world get all of our energy from the Middle East.

Colin,

Russia would be rebuilding its military arsenal (nukes included) whether we were doing so or not. It's not about Bush and Cheney but about Russia reasserting itself on the international stage after the collapse of the Soviet Union.