"There is time to solve this diplomatically," he said, "but time is short".
Mr. Bush clearly stated that his "first choice, of course, is to solve this diplomatically".
We need to get engaged with South Korea and figure out how to solve this diplomatically, since war would be catastrophic".
"I'd like to solve this diplomatically, and I believe we can," President Bush told Armed Forces Radio and Television in an interview released by the White House today.
In Washington, the Bush administration's spokeswoman, Dana Perino, when asked about Mr. Mofaz's statement, said that while Israel's security concerns were understandable, the United States was "trying to solve this diplomatically," Reuters reported.
The president, noting Iran's history of stringing along the West in negotiations over its nuclear program, warned that "the window for solving this issue diplomatically is shrinking".
"We are going to be sure that we work in lockstep as we proceed to try to solve this — hopefully diplomatically".
Only Israel's senior leadership (and perhaps the Americans) know whether the Israeli air force is capable of carrying out an effective attack on its own.Attempting to calm things down, Barack Obama said on February 5th that he did not think Israel had "made a decision on what they need to do" and that the two countries would work in "lockstep as we proceed to solve this, hopefully diplomatically".
The Iraqi government declared that they were hoping to solve this problem diplomatically (Asr Iran 2009).
But, solving this is not rocket science.
