What about Russia ?

Iran is eager for friends, and America should be too.
With the crisis of Iraq still in the horizon, President George "Cowboy W." Bush is now looking towards another Middle Eastern threat in Iran, and with the way his first war is going, if he decides to take on this one in the same manner, we could probably expect more missiles flying over New York City.
What America needs is an ally (and no the British won't count on this one. As far as I'm concerned, they paid off their World War 2 debt by jumping into Iraq) And who better an ally than Russia.

Russia and the US have had some kind of history together. Opposing ideas that lead to the longest war in history, but that should be behind everybody by now. Barring Ann Coulter's constant reference to Communism whenever she refers to a Democrat, the Russians are now part of the twenty-first century, and while not totally embracing the idea, are more democratic than they were eighteen years ago. And in terms of pure strategy, Russia would be the best bet to deter Iran. The nation doesn't have to accept their way of thinking, hell, they don't even have to like them ! But mutual destruction can make anybody side with each other.
Deterrence by position is a very good way of looking at it.
If both the US and Russia stood together in Iran's nuclear position, this would lead China to reconsider its own. We all know that Iran wants to further relations with Russia because of its proximity and its own nuclear power. This would ensure that the US would not be able to use the area around the former Soviet Union as a jump point in getting to Iran should a missile be fired.

So if that's Iran's strategy, then why not try and beat them to the punch ? Why not try and get a partnership going before all of that happens ? Answers : Cold War and Communism.
President Bush and the nation still can't seem to get over the idea that the Soviet Union fell and that there is no more Iron Curtain to prevent relations. The more I see it, the more I begin to realize that Bush like most Americans just want to fight for an ideology and once that comes to pass, they couldn't give a shit about what happens next. Clinton did it when the Commie barrier was finally broken through (after all of the efforts by the far superior Reagan administration), and the sudden culture and economic shock brought Russia plummeting down a toilet. And where was the mighty US to help out ? They were in the same place they were when Bush Sr. told the Kurdish people they needed to stand up to Saddam.
And now Bush is asking everybody why nobody wants to follow his lead - Does he really have to wonder ?

Octavian