'Retain military options against Iran'

[Chris]

'Retain military options against Iran'
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT 02/08/2012 22:40
“After the West has for years allowed the wool to be pulled over its eyes, Iran cannot take us seriously,” Bundestag deputy says.
The German Bundestag in Berlin By REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

BERLIN – A military option should remain on the table to force Iran to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons, the Christian Democratic Union’s foreign policy spokesman in the Bundestag told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. “After the West has for years allowed the wool to be pulled over its eyes, Iran cannot take us seriously,” Philipp Missfelder, one of Germany’s strongest advocates for the security of the Jewish state and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, told the Post. “The military option arises from the rising crisis situation. If Iran does not give in, a military attack will be more likely.”

“We should not take away any option from the table, including the military option,” Missfelder, 32, told Berlin daily BZ over the weekend. He now shares the positions of British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal, both of whom advocate maintaining the military option as a fall back if Iran does not suspend its nuclear enrichment program.

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[mattfivefour]

“After the West has for years allowed the wool to be pulled over its eyes, Iran cannot take us seriously,” Bundestag deputy says.

That's right, and they don't.

(And for record, nobody pulled the wool over the West's eyes: the West's leaders just did not WANT to see what was plain to everybody else.)