Cheney in Manhattan: 'A giant conspiracy' on Iran

[Nonno]

"Former Vice President Dick Cheney swung quietly through New York City Tuesday night to watch his daughter, Elizabeth, a former State Department official, argue the conservative side in a debate over American policy toward Iran, and to express his own skepticism of President Obama's promised negotiations.

"We fail to recognize the fact that we're alone out there in terms of trying to achieve the objective of forcing the Iranians to give up their nuclear weapons," Cheney said at a dinner following the Intelligence Squared debate, in which Elizabeth Cheney and former Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor debated former diplomat Nicholas Burns and Mideast scholar Ken Pollack on the topic of negotiations with Iran.

The former Vice President characterized the Iranian goal in negotiations on ending that country's nuclear program as mere stalling for time, and the Europeans as trying to "restrain the U.S." from military action.

"Everybody's in a giant conspiracy to achieve a different objective than the one we want to achieve," Cheney said.

The negotiations are "bound to fail unless we are perceived as very credible" in threatening military action against Iran, he said."

More at: Cheney in Manhattan: 'A giant conspiracy' on Iran - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Two points;

1. Iran is the poster child for why missile defense systems should be priority #1 in the DoD. Effective, available, deploy-able systems make what Iran is trying to do economic suicide. If their missile program is making strides ahead, weapons that make missiles obsolete push them back behind.

Missile defense makes missiles like knights on horseback; obsolete.

2. If we back away AND do not pursue missile defense in the region, other nations WILL become interested in Iran's weapons capabilities.

Bonus point; drill baby, drill.