Obama: War Can't Solve Iran Nuclear Problem
Good for him. At times like this, I've very glad he is POTUS.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/331-136/20474-obama-war-cant-solve-iran-nuclear-problem
Rejecting charges of appeasing Iran, President Barack Obama cautioned Thursday that tightening the economic vise on Tehran could be counterproductive and bluntly warned that going to war will never guarantee that the Islamic republic abandons its suspect nuclear program.
"No matter how good our military is, military options are always messy, are always difficult, always have unintended consequences, and in this situation are never complete in terms of making us certain that they don't then go out and pursue even more vigorously nuclear weapons in the future," the president told reporters during a press conference dominated by the botched rollout of Obamacare.
The notion might seem heretical in Washington, where successive presidents including Obama have professed that "all options are on the table" (including war) to force Iran to abandon what the United States and its partners regard as a covert effort to get the ability to build a nuclear weapon.
But even under then-President George W. Bush, officials cautioned privately that military action might simply unite Iranians behind the notion that their country requires nuclear weapons to fend off the United States, while economic sanctions could persuade Iran's leaders and people alike that the costs outweigh the benefits.
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