OH YES, THERE'S THAT LITTLE PROBLEM – AT 10:56 A.M. ET:  In a week in which President Obama 1) helped us toward bankruptcy through health-care "reform," 2) beat up on the Israelis, and 3) sucked up to the Russians...other stuff was happening.  Nothing serious here.  Pass it by:

WASHINGTON — Six months after the revelation of a secret nuclear enrichment site in Iran, international inspectors and Western intelligence agencies say they suspect that Tehran is preparing to build more sites in defiance of United Nations demands.

Well, why not?  You need a lot of power to recharge iPods. 

The United Nations inspectors assigned to monitor Iran’s nuclear program are now searching for evidence of two such sites, prompted by recent comments by a top Iranian official that drew little attention in the West, and are looking into a mystery about the whereabouts of recently manufactured uranium enrichment equipment.

You'll notice the sense of urgency in the Obama administration.  We'd been promised "crippling" sanctions on Iran.  Well, we didn't get enough votes for that at the UN, so then we were promised "biting" sanctions.  Well, that didn't sell to the Chinese either.  Now, apparently, we're going for "softer" sanctions to maintain "unanimity."

The Iranians are sure frightened. 

An Iranian bomb would change the face of the region, and make Iran the dominant power, as the neo-isolationists begin to withdraw American forces.  It is hard to see how the United States can benefit from the policies we're currently pursuing, policies that sound tough at first, and become increasingly soft as the months and years go by.

There are many reports that the Obamans have resigned themselves to Iranian nuclear weapons.  Well, whoopee for them.  Mature adults living in the real world have not resigned themselves because they understand the implications...like a nuclear device being sailed into Baltimore harbor in the hold of a ship, and set off by a suicide squad.  Saturday's Orioles game cancelled.

March 28, 2010