African slogan favored by T. Roosevelt: Talk softly, and carry a big stick?

When you pre-emptively threaten massive retaliation for someone who is actually relatively ineffective and innocuous what you do is actually create the threat that will make them want to arm.
It becomes a kind of self-fulfiling prophecy--we've seen this repeated ad nauseam with the stupidity streaming from the Bush administration.

Intelligent, nuanced diplomacy generally follows the African proverb. Clinton's following Bush's lose lose advice: Bluster loudly then don't follow through. It's a cheap, demagogic political gambit that could well convince Tehran that, should HRC get elected, they really do need to arm themselves with nuclear weapons, if they hadn't been inclined to prior to that.

In the region there are three countries with historical records for preemptive violence and/or using nuclear weapons. The United States, Israel and Iraq. All of them have at one time or another been at war with Iran. But Iran has never instituted a pre-emptive war, nor do they have nuclear weapons.

Who do you think an objective observer would say is the greater threat to disability in the region? Turn off your "Israel first" preconceptions and start acting like a rational observer and you'd be surprised at just how hideous Clinton's remarks are.

for her to say obliterate Iran, and absolutely stupid for you to agree that is what should happen.

DelicateMonster's comments are completely correct.

Yours and Hillary's response are tragically ridiculous.

Irie.

.... because of their leaders, the U.S. should easily be the most hated country on earth. As bad as Ahmadinijan is, George W. Bush puts him to shame on the "evilness" scale.