Future U.S. Policy Towards Iran
Although both John McCain and Barack Obama agree that a nuclear armed Iran is bad thing, both do not seem to able to come up with a plan to actually prevent Tehran from developing such weapons.
McCain’s way of stopping Iran is to found a new organization called the “league of democracies.” This league should then try to prevent Iran from developing WMD’s by inflicting ‘so much economic pain on Teheran that it would give up its nuclear ambitions.’
Obama disagrees with the terrible “league” idea - which would not be successful in any case - and believes that the United Nations is able to deal with it. Sadly, we have already seen this is not true; Russia and China are not willing to do whatever it takes. In fact, Russia made perfectly clear in recent months that it was not willing to agree to any new sanctions that would make life difficult for the Mullahs in charge of Iran.
All the above probably strengthens Iran’s conviction that will get away with developing nuclear weapons and ignoring the ‘demands’ from the international community and especially the United States. Tehran knows that when push comes to shove, there is not much the U.S. can or is willing to do.
It is quite likely that Iran will succeed in developing nuclear weapons. The only country possible able and willing to prevent it from doing so will be Israel. However, the U.S. and other countries will try to convince Israel not to take military action against Iran - international pressure may indeed cause Israel’s leaders to give in and let Iran become a regional superpower, knowing that, in the end, they too (Israel that is) have nuclear weapons.
The problem with the U.N. is the permanent membership on the security council. It allows too much power to one veto.
If only that could be changed. But who would agree?