(Newsmax)...The U.S. Navy should interdict gasoline shipments to Iran to pressure the regime to halt its development of nuclear weapons — but President Obama doesn’t have the “courage” to do that, veteran political analyst Dick Morris tells Newsmax.
“I think we have to apportion blame both to Bush and to Obama,I personally think Bush is more culpable than Obama because he was inactive for a longer period of time.
“The United States has absolutely refused to get tough with Iran, and as a result Iran is going to sooner or later develop nuclear weapons — unless Israel is gutsy enough and willing to accept the losses it would incur in attacking.
“There’s a very simple thing we could do to stymie Iran. Forty percent of its gasoline is imported” because the Iranians don’t have the refineries to convert enough of their oil to gasoline and they must import more, mostly through Dubai.
“The United States could interdict that flow of gasoline,” Morris said.
“It has a navy. We could just stop it, or persuade Dubai not to be complicit in sending it. Obama will not take that step. He talks about all other kinds of sanctions that are not meaningful, and won’t take that key step.
“Because he doesn’t have the courage to do that, or the commitment to do that, Israel may have to take action on their own and attack Iran, with devastating consequences to Iran and to Israel.”
“I think we have to apportion blame both to Bush and to Obama,I personally think Bush is more culpable than Obama because he was inactive for a longer period of time.
“The United States has absolutely refused to get tough with Iran, and as a result Iran is going to sooner or later develop nuclear weapons — unless Israel is gutsy enough and willing to accept the losses it would incur in attacking.
“There’s a very simple thing we could do to stymie Iran. Forty percent of its gasoline is imported” because the Iranians don’t have the refineries to convert enough of their oil to gasoline and they must import more, mostly through Dubai.
“The United States could interdict that flow of gasoline,” Morris said.
“It has a navy. We could just stop it, or persuade Dubai not to be complicit in sending it. Obama will not take that step. He talks about all other kinds of sanctions that are not meaningful, and won’t take that key step.
“Because he doesn’t have the courage to do that, or the commitment to do that, Israel may have to take action on their own and attack Iran, with devastating consequences to Iran and to Israel.”