“Romney’s statement is foolish in a number of ways. First of all, it sets him up for endless mockery if he is elected and Iran tests a bomb during his time in office. Contrary to his bluster, nothing he proposes doing will stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon if the Iranian regime decides to develop one. That includes military strikes on Iran’s facilities. Having declared that he will definitely stop something that he cannot stop, he opens himself to the standard charges of “weakness” and failure of the sort that he flings with such abandon right now. Preserving credibility is overrated, and it’s not something that seems to worry Romney very much, but Romney’s statement undermines his credibility by promising something he can’t possibly guarantee. Bizarrely, Romney continues to treat an issue on which there is (unfortunately) considerable bipartisan consensus into a partisan dispute. He seems compelled for some reason to insist that there are profound differences of substance between him and Obama, which forces him to belittle Obama’s policy when it is almost identical to his own. At the same time, Romney’s confrontational Iran policy makes it even more likely that Iran will decide that its needs a deterrent if Romney is elected, which makes it that much more likely that Romney’s words are going to come back to haunt him.”
(via azspot)
