Barack Obama reminded the world today what he has been trying to tell us all along: Iran is a serious threat to the world and can not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.
Everyone on the same page now? We all clear here?
And he also outlined his policy, drawing from a growing list of cliche’s that make up most of what he knows about the real world:
AFP: Obama spoke of a series of “big sticks and big carrots” regarding the Iranian regime and repeated his openness to meeting with its representatives, if the conditions were appropriate.
If big sticks and big carrots are not effective, Obama doesn’t expect us to get wrapped around the axle over the situation in Iraq, he plans to float a trial balloon and run some ideas up the flagpole as a first step towards peeling back the onion to identify the net-net of the situation before meeting with representatives of Iran and forming subcommittees to flesh out a plan for a win-win proposal.
Oh… and all that talk about meeting unconditionally with Iran and the fact that they pose no real threat to the United States… let’s put that behind us and keep moving forward:
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