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Finally, I cannot disassociate the question of the "Iranian Problem" from those who want to 'solve it', which makes this wchurchill-inspired exercise a bit nonsensical to me. That is: it is a very big and vague what-if to imagine if Europe would be at the ball and not the USA (does that mean the USA disappears from Iraq, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and the Gulf?), and that doesn't just change the 'solution' but the 'problem' itself, too.
I'm not suggesting you should: it is possible that the real problem is that the US wants to exercise control over Iranian resources rather than anything the Iranians are doing.
The challenge though is that progress must be seen to happen, however slowly. My sense of the American electorate is that Iran, in particular, if it were to go through a similar process of the 16, or whatever the number, feckless Iraqi UN resolutions (over say a 5 year period from today), that would bring out a "51% gunslinger attitude" in America. IMHO, America will learn a lot in Iraq, and has. But I don't think one of the lessons will be to leave a seemingly raving lunatic alone, if he is perceived as arming. I could be wrong on that of course,,,,but I don't think so. 51% has made tremendous change in the US--Iraq, stategy in the war on terror, appointments to the Supreme Court, tax policy, etc.
So I sincerely applaud the leadership of other countries on these issues, which after all, have huge impact on all of us.
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