Monday’s G-8 meeting is expected to focus on the eternal US push for additional sanctions against Iran, but to hear the Obama Administration talk the battle for support has already been won.
Top Obama adviser David Axelrod declared that the world had “united” against Iran while fellow adviser Valerie Jarret said there was a “strong world coalition” that would force Iran to back down.
No one appears to have told the Russian and Chinese government, however. President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday reiterated that sanctions were not “optimal” and that punitive measures were “not a good idea” against Iran. He didn’t rule out voting in favor of minor sanctions, but his comments were largely in keeping with Russia’s repeated comments. China has repeatedly signaled its opposition as well.
The latest push for sanctions seems to be built around spy agency’s claims that Iran is planning more enrichment sites, a suspicion which seems to have been built in no small part on the fact that Iran has repeatedly said it is planning more enrichment sites. But though its attempts to spread its civilian enrichment program around so as to make it more difficult to attack may be irksome to the West, it is unlikely to provoke China or Russia to suddenly endorse more sanctions against them.
This is not a very useful article, except perhaps to neoconservatives. Why is antiwar.com even publishing it?
But I'm so happy to hear from crypto-Israeli David Axelrod that the whole world's "uniting" against Iran. Really? Isnt' the whole world every bit as disgusted with Israel (if not MORE so?)
So Iran's uranium enrichment for nuclear energy deserves global sanctions if not a full-on war, while Israel's ethnic-cleansing and accomplished nuclear arsenal gets US tax subsidies. Interesting! Just what kind of depraved political universe do we now inhabit? Any ideas?
This is Zionist junk propaganda masquerading as 'news'.
What a load of Orwellian crap. Put these warmongers in jail. Why publish Zionized trash?
What are you talking about? Methinks you should lay off the coffee a bit.
antiwar.com is publishing it because it's written by antiwar.com. Duh.
And who is saying anything about anyone "deserving" something?
Another joyful moment when we can again unite against another country, perhaps in preparation for bombings or even an invasion. Invasions are becoming our speciality now, often preceded by night bombings, so impressive on the TV screen and enjoyed by all.
Who will launch the first bomb? Israel, to get the game going, to consolidate their land granbbing, to push the Palestiniens out into the wildnerness. Are they waiting for the delivery of phrosous bombs , or the new planes so recently promised? "Some say," as the saying goes, that we have our own supplies in the region stashed away ready to go .
Gather round – No matter who fires first there is money to be made by all.
Perhaps Obama and the bunch from his Pentagon should read and comprehend the Peloponnesian Wars. Athens thought much same way as the US/Israel axis, invading, plundering for resources until they decided to launch an attack against arch enemy Sparta. The Spartan Army and Navy kicked their ass all the way back to Athens and didn't stop until they crushed the Athenians soundly, sacked their capital and slaughtered and enslaved the Athenian survivors.
They should take seriously that bit of history and give it a great deal of thought before they continue on the same path of destruction as the Greeks did. Even though it occurred in 435 BC, it has lessons to be learned by this bunch.