Interesting take by Secular Blasphemy:

[Romney’s idea] is probably not a bad idea, neither is it very novel. The west is currently carrying out a massive international bribing scheme to get rogue governments to behave. North Korea was bribed into closing down its reactor. Libya was bribed into returning the medical workers falsely accused of injecting children with AIDS. The Arab governments are receiving a massive US arms deal, a bribe, to join a coalition to isolate Iran and Hamas. I could go on and on. The difference? The west is bribing corrupt, despotic and extremist governments. Iran, through Hezbollah, is bribing, if this word can be used, the ordinary people into supporting its extremist ideas. It may not offer as immediate benefits, but the Iranian leadership, not hampered by four year terms, are thinking more long-term than the democratic governments of the west.