Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in an interview published late Friday, called the Iranian leadership “evil” and said he would consider decapitating the Tehran regime if elected. “I see Iran’s leadership as evil,” the former Massachusetts governor told The Wall Street Journal.
“I see Iran as intent on building, once again, an evil empire based upon the resources of the Middle East.” Romney said he disagreed with President Barack Obama when he says the United States has shared interests with all the world’s people. “There are people who are evil,” he argued.
“There are people who have as their intent the subjugation and repression of other people; they are evil. America is good.” Romney said he did not have access to secret government intelligence and, therefore, could not make a decision now about the course he would pursue to stop Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions.
But he said “the range includes something of a blockade nature, to something of a surgical strike nature, to something of a decapitate-the-regime nature, to eliminate the military threat of Iran altogether.”
Will the United States shoot itself in the foot through these tirades and its sanctions against Iran? This question is not difficult to answer and immediate answer is in affirmative. The biggest lesson of history is that nations don’t learn any lesson. The cost of sanctions to the U.S. economy of expensive oil, was in the neighborhood of half a trillion dollars, caused by decades of sanctions on investment in Iran, Iraq, and Libya. The cost of the proposed sanctions is never mentioned. But the sanctions and the escalating costs of transportation of oil due to Hormuz blockade by Iran would draw the US into another misadventure. This could destabilize the region further into breeding grounds for US-hatred, extremism and terrorism. The Velayat in the Strait of Hormuz is no ordinary war-games and must be taken seriously. Read more at: http://pksecurity.blogspot.com/2011/12/velayat-in…
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