Group Urges Credible U.S. Military Threat To Iran

[limpyhobbler]

7. This is horrible advice.

We are told we have to make threats to deter them from getting nukes. Later we will be told that if we don't follow through with our threat, we will be perceived as a paper tiger. Making threats is a necessary step down the path to war.

If you want to avoid war, avoid making threats.

The task force members include Chuck Robb, a Democrat and former U.S. senator from Virginia; Mortimer Zuckerman, a real estate mogul, publisher and long-time Democratic Party backer; John Hannah, national security adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney, and Eric Edelman, a career diplomat who served at the Pentagon under former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.