re: #402 sandbox

My point is that Obama is not willing to do anything effective to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. He won’t:
—overtly support overthow of the Mullahs
—impose refined gas embargo
—bomb Iran Nuclear sites
—allow Israel to bomb those sites (although I’m not absolutely certain on this one.)

If we tried to overtly overthrow the Mullahs in Iran it would backfire. The same people that oppose the Mullahs in Iran would turn around and defend the sovereignty of Iran regardless. There are far too many people in control of the government of Iran to do so effectively. You can’t do it with “one clean shot.”

Gas embargo by whom? We don’t sell gasoline to Iran. China is their primary supplier. You think they even care about what will happen in the long term? They’re only concerned about selling gasoline. You won’t get that kind of cooperation from China. You also won’t get much cooperation from Russia who is another trade partner with Iran.