Keller on "How about not bombing Iran"

Bill Keller has an article in the NY Times entitled "How about not bombing Iran" in which he makes some suggestions for a way out of the current US-Iran nuclear impasse.

While insisting on portraying Iran as having engaged in bad faith negotiations, he recommends that the US stop insisting on "zero enrichment" in Iran.

He mentions that Iran has offered to cease 20% enrichment,

The State Department was dismissive – and again, it’s hard to fault them for taking what the Iranians say as bluff and diversion – but given the added menace of 20 percent enrichment, the White House ought to be looking for a way to test that offer.

What Keller doesn't ask is why the State Department was dismissive, nor does he ask why the US continues to insist on zero enrichment -- because this was hardly the first time that Iran made a significant compromise offers that were ignored or even deliberately torpedoed.

Keller then makes a list of ways out -- which consist of Iran making compromises -- not realizing that practically everything he's listed was offered by Iran already.

Keller and other analysts don't want to come to grips with the fact that this standoff is not really about nuclear weapons, and so no solution can be found in any compromises over the nuclear issue. The nuclear standoff with Iran has always been about justifying regime change in Iran. The last thing the US wants is to let the nuclear issue be resolved peacefully, thus depriving it of the excuse for regime change policies.

Comments

[Paul]

I wonder what happend to AFROOZ MAHDAVI? Remember these gems?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/08/is-ahmadinejads-arrest-imminent.html

and

http://www.thenation.com/article/162868/power-struggle-iran-pits-president-against-supreme-leader

[Ali]

you have to blog about this: http://ryanseacrest.com/2012/01/23/watch-the-first-2-minutes-of-bravos-new-show-shahs-of-sunset-video/

all cast members are jewish..and the ONE muslim guy happens to be gay. great. this show is going to embarass us times 1000!