Time for the goalposts on Iran to move again

Obama has long proclaimed a Dec. 31 deadline for cooperation or retaliation of some unspecified kind. But Iran and, before it, Iraq under Saddam Hussein, has confidently counted on years of international dithering on enforcing printed sanctions.

So naturally on ABC’s “This Week” this week, George Stephanopoulos asked Obama adviser and ex-newspaper reporter David Axelrod about the approaching Obama deadline…

Axelrod declined to reiterate the Dec. 31 date. Here’s the exchange. Draw your own conclusions…