Obama Offers Carrot Sticks to Iran

The mullahs were too busy laughing to comment.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said on Sunday he was prepared to offer Iran economic incentives to stop its nuclear program, but he also warned that sanctions could be toughened if it refused.

"We are willing to talk to them directly and give them a clear choice and ultimately let them make a determination in terms of whether they want to do this the hard way or the easy way," Obama told NBC's "Meet the Press" program.

Dealing with Iran's uranium enrichment program, which some Western countries say is being used to develop a nuclear bomb, will be one of the first foreign policy tests for Obama after he takes office on January 20.

Iran last month signaled it was expanding its nuclear enrichment program, a clear sign that it has no intention of bowing to Western pressure. Tehran says the program is purely for peaceful purposes to generate more electricity.

Obama will never have the stones to attack their reactors and the Iranians know it. They're busy, meanwhile, test-firing missiles from ships. They don't take the IAEA seriously and I highly doubt any "incentives" offered by Obama will be a deterrent.

Force they'll understand. Meaning it's probably going to have to come from the Israelis.

Meanwhile, from the Department of Redundancy Department, famed linguist and liberal icon Noam Chomsky is giving interviews to Iranian state media blaming the United States for terrorism. What a guy.