Rather weak effort to portray Obama as lacking sufficient strength and knowledge to deal with the Iranian situation. The wisdom of Obama's cautious approach is borne out by this article which seeks to equate Iran with the Soviet Union, a contention totally aburd.

The piece lacks balance and historical context. What, precisely, would the writer have the United States do? And how, precisely, would a precipitous move by the United States affect oil prices, and what affect would that have global economic recovery? What is going on in Iran today is internal and, as the president appeared to understand, is at the beginning of a process. Intervention by outside forces would immediately terminate that process. Enough of the Cowboy diplomacy, please!