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War is not the only solution to the Iranian nuclear threat, says Charles Krauthammer, and Israel is not asking America to go to war on its behalf.
“The idea that the only alternative to accepting a capitulation-ist negotiation, which is what we are offering Iran, is war is . . . false,” said Krauthammer on Monday’s Special Report. “Obama always says it is either what I am demanding, or war. It is not.”
“We were imposing sanctions on Iran which were extremely strong, had caused a collapse of the currency, huge inflation, and grumbling in the streets among the merchants, which is exactly what had destroyed the regime of the Shah,” Krauthammer observed. “Now, we are in a position where Congress is trying to add onto that. And, remember, the earlier sanctions which brought Iran to its knees and to the negotiating table were in a condition of $100[-per-barrel] oil. It is now less than half of that. So it is in a position where its economy could collapse under sanctions.”
“Nobody is asking for America to go to war,” Krauthammer emphasized. “What the Israelis are asking, what a lot of Americans are asking, including the majority of Republicans, is real sanctions — and give the Israelis the right, the green light, to defend themselves. They have never asked for Americans to go to war on their behalf, and they are not asking that today.”