Obama Ready to Strike to Stop Iran: Ex-Adviser (Dennis Ross)

[Purveyor]

By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan - Tue Jan 10 11:41:13 GMT 2012

No one should doubt that President Barack Obama is prepared to use military force to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon if sanctions and diplomacy fail, the president’s former special assistant on Iran said.

Obama has “made it very clear” that he regards a nuclear- armed Iran as so great a threat to international security that “the Iranians should never think that there’s a reluctance to use the force” to stop them, Dennis Ross, who served two years on Obama’s National Security Council and a year as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s special adviser on Iran, said in an interview yesterday.

“There are consequences if you act militarily, and there’s big consequences if you don’t act,” said Ross, who in a two- hour interview at the Bloomberg Washington office laid out a detailed argument against those who say Obama would sooner “contain” a nuclear-armed Iran than strike militarily.

The administration considers the risks of permitting a nuclear-armed Iran to be greater than the risks of military action, said Ross, who last month rejoined the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a research group.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/obama-prepared-to-use-force-to-stop-nuclear-iran-former-adviser-ross-says.html

[rocktivity]

1. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award

I'm not saying that this ex-adviser is wrong -- I'm just saying that this ex-adviser is an EX-ADVISER!!!


rocktivity

[OKNancy]

2. You never know if this isn't part of a plan

Part of the "diplomacy". An ex-adviser puts it out there that the US would strike just as a kind of backdoor warning to make Iran think twice about it. Pretty sneaky/smart if it is.

[RC]

3. Nobody needs to go after Iran because they are going nuclear.

Those people that think we do need to do so, need to study history for the reason why Iran feels the need to go nuclear in the first place. Another case where violence is begetting violence and the answer for some is more violence.
If we had left them alone back in 1953, would they be doing this now? Most likely not. Just like Iraq will come back to extract its revenge from us in a couple of generations.

[Tempest]

4. "who last month rejoined the Washington Institute for Near East Policy"

Says all I need to know about Ross.


The establishment of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) in 1985 greatly expanded the pro-Israel lobby's influence over policy as well. WINEP's founding director, Martin Indyk, had previously been research director of AIPAC which, then as now, focuses much of its efforts on Congress. Indyk developed WINEP into a highly effective think tank devoted to maintaining and strengthening the US-Israel alliance through advocacy in the media and lobbying the executive branch.

The result was the 1993 Oslo Declaration of Principles.

Thus, the adoption of WINEP's policy recommendation to "resist pressures for a procedural breakthrough" by both the Bush and Clinton administrations delayed the start of meaningful Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, contributed to the demonization of the PLO and multiplied the casualty rate of the first Palestinian intifada.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy

[Kelvin Mace]

5. If Obama is this stupid, he deserves to lose

Picking a fight with Iran is stupidity which would make the Iraq invasion look like the most brilliant military operation is U.S. history.

Attacking Iran is a quick way to push oil to $200 a barrel in about a week. Yeah, what Obama wants to help the economy is $7.00/gallon gasoline.

[AndyTiedye]

6. It Would Go a Lot Higher than $7, if You Could Find It At All

[Tempest]

8. A 2003 report from military experts say $15-$20 a gallon

And as you said, if you could find it.

It would also cause our military machine to stop dead in its tracks.

[alp227]

10. Good luck trying to get health care under a Ron Paul presidency...

[Kelvin Mace]

19. If America is stupid enough to elect him

then we deserve it.

[bemildred]

7. Misses his old job, does he? nt

[DeathToTheOil]

9. Dennis Ross???

[Scuba]

11. Didn't Panetta just say Iran had no nuke capability?

[FrenchieCat]

12. Yeah, but......

No one cares about what the Administration says....
only what others rumor it "may" do "if".....

You know how that goes, doncha?

[jakeXT]

13. Obama on Iran: 'We don't take any options off the table' - video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/oct/14/barack-obama-iran-options-table

[sakabatou]

15. Just what we need

[unkachuck]

16. do we have an anti-war candidate we could support?....n/t

[Fearless]

17. Advisor = Adviser?

[yurbud]

18. are people stupid enough to fall for this shit AGAIN?