Insight from Christopher Hitchens, writing in Slate, Don’t Let the Mullahs Run Out the Clock: Obama must talk directly to the Iranian people:
It used to be that Bush officials, when asked about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, would reply in a dark and meaningful manner, “We will not leave this problem to the next administration.” But, as you may have noticed… Still, one has to hope that the Obama administration does not make the opposite mistake and substitute a “make nice” policy for a policy that displayed neither soft speech nor the big stick.
