President Ahmadinejad of Iran is close to creating a nuclear bomb.(Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)
From Times Online:
Iran poses the greatest foreign policy challenge to Barack Obama, the President-elect, with Tehran on course to produce a nuclear bomb in the first year of an Obama administration, a coalition of top think-tanks gave warning yesterday.
Mr Obama must keep his promises of direct talks with Tehran and engage the Middle East region as a whole if he is to halt a looming crisis that could be revisited on the US, the experts said.
“Diplomacy is not guaranteed to work,” Richard Haass, one of the authors said. “But the other options – military action or living with an Iranian weapon are sufficiently unattractive for it to warrant serious commitment.”
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My Comment: I guess we are going to find out what diplomacy and talking to our enemies will produce. I hope that a President Obama will be successful ..... but if history is any yardstick, I am not optimistic.