Clinton’s war rhetoric: “Obliterate” Iran
Writing by persiancowboy on Tuesday, 22 of April , 2008 at 10:51 am
Here is a press release I just got from the National Iranian American Council about Sen. Clinton’s war rhetoric.
Washington DC - The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) denounces Senator Hillary Clinton’s escalating war rhetoric on Iran. In an interview with Good Morning America, Senator Clinton promised Tuesday to “obliterate” Iran should Tehran develop a nuclear weapon and use it against Israel.
“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the President, we will attack Iran,” Clinton said. “In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.”
NIAC regrets that at a time when America needs a new foreign policy - one centered on resolving regional and global conflict through diplomacy in cooperation with US allies - Senator Clinton has chosen a policy that would prolong conflict. Her rhetoric suggests that she would resort to Cold War tactics instead of recognizing the ability to resolve the US-Iran stalemate through diplomacy.
“Senator Clinton’s statement reflects a mindset of perpetual conflict that has guided our Iran policy for the last seven years,” Trita Parsi, NIAC President, said. “This is disastrous for US national interest, since we are in desperate need of a new and fresh Iran policy aimed at resolving the conflict rather than prolonging it.”
Senator Clinton’s remarks were made in the context of her proposal to provide a nuclear umbrella to Arab states in the Middle East against Iran. The New York Senator rejected on MSNBC Monday evening the idea that the government in Tehran cannot be deterred.
“Fixation on deterrence, sanctions and threats of war have all failed to advance US national interest and change Iran’s nuclear policy,” Parsi said. “What we need now is not nuclear deterrence, but nuclear diplomacy.”
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Comment by William deB. Mills
Made Thursday, 24 of April , 2008 at 12:27 pm
Hillary’s pathetic attempt to match the rhetorical excesses of Ahmadinejad (not to say Netanyahu) is indeed irresponsible. Ending the Iranian-Israeli confrontation, not to mention resolving all the issues that plague Mideastern politics, is of course challenging. But intensifying the rhetorical war is inexcusable. Ironically, there
actually is a soundbite Hillary could have used that would help: she could have promised to consider offering a U.S. nuclear security umbrella for the whole region.
In both Iran and Israel, the ruling faction asserts the self-fulfilling nonsense that “they” only understand force. Bounds need to be placed on the increasingly irrational rhetorical war, a highly contagious virus, to pave the way for reasoned discussions of differences. At the moment every effort to resolve any specific regional disagreement, e.g., resolution of the Golan Heights dispute, is sabotaged by the understandable hypnotic focus on nuclear fears. The most logical way to create an atmosphere conducive to solving problems would be to erect a regional structure for minimizing the threat of a nuclear attack.
We need not obsess over the mechanics of making this work. Were Washington to announce a clear policy that it would not be the first to use nuclear weapons in the Mideast and that it would condemn without reservation any party that was the first to use them, that would open the door to devising a believable regional nuclear umbrella.
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