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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: thundley4 on April 18, 2010, 12:42:10 PM
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability, according to government officials familiar with the document.
Several officials said the highly classified analysis, written in January to President Obama’s national security adviser, Gen. James L. Jones, came in the midst of an intensifying effort inside the Pentagon, the White House and the intelligence agencies to develop new options for Mr. Obama. They include a set of military alternatives, still under development, to be considered should diplomacy and sanctions fail to force Iran to change course.
Officials familiar with the memo’s contents would describe only portions dealing with strategy and policy, and not sections that apparently dealt with secret operations against Iran, or how to deal with Persian Gulf allies.
One senior official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the memo, described the document as “a wake-up call.†But White House officials dispute that view, insisting that for 15 months they had been conducting detailed planning for many possible outcomes regarding Iran’s nuclear program.
In an interview on Friday, General Jones declined to speak about the memorandum. But he said: “On Iran, we are doing what we said we were going to do. The fact that we don’t announce publicly our entire strategy for the world to see doesn’t mean we don’t have a strategy that anticipates the full range of contingencies — we do.â€
NY Slimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/middleeast/18iran.html)
:hammer: Imadinnerjacket just keeps rebuffing every overture that Lord Zero makes, but this administration still believes offering a carrot is always the better choice to our enemies.
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No, duh.
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First Prize for the, "No Shit" story of the day...and is anyone really surprised this comes out on a weekend?
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They haven't a clue.
Obama's "peace plan" seems to be encouraging a major war.
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They haven't a clue.
Obama's "peace plan" seems to be encouraging a major war.
Seems like they didn't learn from the words of Ronadlus Maximus: "Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong."