Norman Podhoretz, Colombia daily Tribune/Wall Street Journal: Israel’s Choice: Conventional War Now, or Nuclear War Later
Almost everyone who opposes the deal President Barack Obama has struck with Iran hotly contests his relentless insistence that the only alternative to it is war. No, they claim, there is another alternative, and that is “a better deal.”
To which Obama responds that Iran would never agree to the terms his critics imagine could be imposed. These terms would include the toughening rather than the lifting of sanctions; “anytime, anywhere” nuclear-plant inspections instead of the easily evaded ones to which he has agreed; the elimination rather than the freezing of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure; and the corresponding elimination of the “sunset” clause that leaves Iran free after 10 years to build as many nuclear weapons as it wishes.
WNU Editor: I sincerely hope that Norman Podhoretz is wrong ... unfortunately .... when one looks at the Middle East from a historical perspective .... wars and conflicts have always been a constant throughout this region's history, as well as a history where new and more destructive weapons that have been developed always end up being being used in its wars. Nuclear weapons ..... specifically the use of them .... will be the next logical step for many of these protagonists .... after-all .... they are just following tradition.
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