What Do the Peacemongers Propose We Do Now that Talks with Iran Have Failed?

The common mantra of, "Diplomacy first," has plagued our ability to deal with Iran's obsession with killing American soldiers and create nuclear weapons, because most people who advocate the idea of "talking" to Iran have no real idea what talking involves. Indeed, many of them think that a dialog between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran is the greatest thing we could ever have, but they seem to forget what exactly this diplomatic effort is aimed at achieving.

When entering in diplomacy with Iran, the end result needs to be exhausting all non-military options to convince them to cease their nuclear program while maintaining the maximum number of our benefits. With the constant Democratic wail of "take the weapons option off the table," we fundamentally castrate ourselves, limping into an arena with one foot in a kick-boxing match. We exhort how much we want them to stop their nuclear program, they say no. We tell them we'll give them incentives and help them build a nuclear program. They say no. We ask them again very very very nicely, they say no. We impose sanctions. They say no.

At this point, rather than risk being bored to death by future attempts by our diplomats to impotently request that they stop their nuclear program, Iran has headed us off at the pass and warned us that it's not going to stop, period. We can throw as many sanctions as we want on Iran, nothing is going to stop the nuclear program.

So effectively, it can be declared that talks have failed. Not just marginally either, we've effectively made it clear that any thug that wants nuclear weapons can just bite their thumb at us, throw a few rockets into an ally's backyard, and promise to literally hinder any peace found in Annapolis can do so, what's America going to do about it? Some people may march in the streets, but who am I kidding, we only march in the streets when we're fighting to preserve thousands, maybe even millions of lives, or when we can exact a political edge, no one would march in the street to defend Israel or protest the brutal murders carried out by the Iranian powers that be every single day.