Friday, February 5, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
William Tobey: Iran unfolds its fist to slap us in the face - '...Neither Russia nor China sees a nuclear armed Iran as a threat. All other things being equal, they might prefer Tehran’s ayatollahs not to control nuclear weapons, but all other things are not equal. Beijing wants access to oil and gas. Moscow wants to rebuild a geostrategic position in the Middle East, sell conventional arms and nuclear reactors to Iran, and foster a regional power capable of standing up to the United States. If key administration assumptions about Iran have proven false, what now?...'
