By
Joseph
Klein
After vacillating for weeks on what to do
regarding his red line for the use of chemical weapons in Syria and ultimately
retreating, President Obama laid down yet another of his meaningless red lines
for Iran. "My suspicion is that the Iranians recognize they shouldn't draw
a lesson that we haven't struck [Syria] to think we won't strike Iran,"
Obama warned in an interview with ABC that aired last Sunday. "I think
what the Iranians understand is that the nuclear issue is a far larger issue
for us than the chemical weapons issue." There is little doubt
that the Iranians have learned precisely the opposite from Obama's
back-and-forth flirtation with military action over the last several weeks.
Since Secretary of State John Kerry had signaled that any attack against Syria
would be "unbelievably small," it is not difficult to imagine
Iran's leadership concluding that an attack against Iran, if any, would be
small as well. [more...]
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