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Originally Posted by loquitur
Don't you think it would be a mistake to tell Iran that we're taking bombing off the table? Even if it's actually off the table? It's usually a good thing to keep the other guy guessing.
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I would think that pushing for UN inspectors to ensure that they are legally enriching uranium to be used for energy would be the best bet right now. Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and as such is legally obliged to demonstrate the evidence to experts that they are not developing nuclear weapons. Quite frankly, the US should be trying to make friends with Iran so that we can avoid being partially responsible for getting fundamentalist leadership elected there (despite Ahmadinejad being a figurehead, he does effect the public perception of the Iranian government both for the west and his own people, which is a problem because he's the Muslim version of Bush). The problem, of course, is that peace isn't profitable for military contractors. But that's for another thread.
Leave us say that "keeping the other guy guessing" is bad policy when it comes to Iran, imho.
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Originally Posted by loquitur
Oh, and you're right about the pleasant surprise. Though I suspect I'm less surprised than you are, I'm no less pleased.
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I'm more than pleasantly surprised, I'm pleasantly flabbergasted. Assuming Obama can take most or all of Texas (where "Hillary" is a bad word), Obama may very well be president elect before we know it.
Edit: Ah, a perfect comparison: I was as surprised to see Obama winning as I was to hear Chopin being played in a Halo commercial.