"Weakness is provocative."

The news of the day is that Iran has been caught (job well done, to those who caught them!) in a plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador by bombing a restaurant in Washington, DC along with bombs at the embassies of Israel and Saudi Arabia. In his book Known and Unknown Donald Rumsfeld over and over again warns that "weakness is provocative" and that "even the perception of weakness is provocative."http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

Mike's America outlines what he believes are the reasons why Iran felt embolden to try to pull off such an attack at this time: http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/2011/10/obamas-weakness-invites-iranian-acts-of.html

What signal are we giving to Iran?

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