Iran and the USSR

LA Times: Reports on President Obama's policy toward Iran, the Obama White House has stated its opposition to Iran getting the bomb, the article states the following on this policy, " The....administration's goal is still to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. But like many of the president's worthy aspirations, this one may be unattainable. " As noted in many news reports the USA has placed missile defences in countries around Iran, very much like the old NATO policy during the Cold War when it came to the USSR. Thus we come to the point of the article, the main argument is for a Cold War policy of containment, but this would be a disaster for the Middle East, the rest of region would be forced in to arms race, the countries would ask themselves would Obama or his successors really defend them if the balloon went up, these countries would have seen how Obama has appeased Russia at the expense of Poland and the Czech Republic, and for what, nothing in return, Russia and China are opposed to strong UN sanctions against Iran. The idea of containment is an old policy that worked on the whole for Europe, but the USA still had to fight communist threat in other parts of the globe, in the case of Iran the Tehran Regime would use its support of terrorists such as the Taliban in Afghanistan to cause problems for NATO and any American President. As the Sunday Times reported today the Tehran Regime has a three month terrorist training plan for the Taliban, a nuclear armed Iran would be more of a threat to the region and the West. Thus there is one actor that has the final say that is Israel, at the end of the day if Obama is weak then Israel will have to attack Iran and Obama will have to support the move, at the rate he is going he will be a one term President, but he wants a fighting chance in 2012, thus he will have to support Israel, if he does not the Congress of the USA will, its that simple and brutal, that is Chicago politics D.C. style.