you come across as being on the Ayatollah’s payroll

Would you care to explain that remark?

sentence copied from above is abysmal

I believe “convoluted” is a better adjective. Which was the point.

Once China enters the field — and it will sooner than later — the entire current dialog goes out the window. That will happen when China and Russia consume more crude oil from the Middle East and supply more gasoline than the US.

If the US had a single brain among the entire government, it would give Iran a guarantee of protection against an attack from Israel in exchange for concessions on nuke inspections. As a part of this initiative it should begin to put pressure on Israel to give up its nukes and open its doors to inspection. Israel is where the real problem is, has always been, and will always be until neutralized. But China will likely have to do the neutralization.

However, Jeremy, I find you arguments, while not terribly creative or outside the box, at least well put and thought-provoking, although you come across as being on the Ayatollah’s payroll. And the following 110-word non-sentence sentence copied from above is abysmal:

In other words, while Israel regularly threatens that it won’t wait much longer for the U.S. to come to some agreement with Iran before it launches an attack against Iran’s nuclear sites that Iran’s possession of the bomb would surely deter, Iran is willing pass up an offer that would constitute “a headlong sprint” towards such a deterrent because doing so could actually jeopardize the possibility of it obtaining the bomb, since if Iran accepted the deal ostensibly designed to prevent it from being able to enrich uranium to weapons-grade, Israel would be even more likely to bomb their nuclear sites even sooner than if it Iran just rejects the proposal.

From the very begining the aggression against Iran was pharsed in a cryptic and misleading way as ‘surgical strike’ The idea is of course that Iran is extremely helpless, supine, and passive and will remain so when such ‘surgical strike’ is attempted. This is for the internal consumption, implying the US will not invade but simply bomb Iran selectively. In, short this aggression will be limited with no consequences as was the case with the bombing of Iraq’s nuclear installations. The US public, pathetically mired in ignorance, is thus swayed to look favorably on such an act aggression. The Iran leadership, however, has made it clear again and again, and one must wisely take their statements seriously, that they will wage an all out war on the US and its allies in the ME, if such ‘surgical strike; is made. In short, Iran for all practical purposes,- and this point is completely and idiotically lost on the US corporated media, will be the triggerwire for the thrid world war and its Armegeddon. Such ‘surgical strike’ would be a de facto Jihad for 1.5 billion moslems.
But how else a fascist America will be brought to its knee and doomed if not by a ruinous world war? I personally wish to see the downfall of the United States of America in my life time. How about you?
And of course not to forget Kuperman himself: is he not smack in the middle of the most redneck US state from which that village idiot, George Bush. hails? A redneck paper would publish his garbage happily, but why NYTIMES, unless of course we realize the latter has more jews than the state of Israel. Must keep the circulation up and up.