The Obama administration is considering letting Iran continue to enrich uranium during negotiations about its nuclear program. Joe Klein could live with a nuclear Iran:
The question is, how dire a threat do you think this is? The Israelis, and some of their American right-wing allies, believe it is mortal. I don't. I think it is a consequence of Iranian pride and a rational desire for deterrence. As long as the Israelis and Pakistanis have the bomb, the Iranians will want one. After all, no sane mullah–and they have proven themselves to be quite sane, if often noxious, when it comes to foreign policy–could have watched the events of the last decade and not drawn the conclusion that having a bomb enhances Iran's national security. The other two members of the "Axis of Evil" offer a dramatic narrative: North Korea developed a bomb and hasn't been attacked; Saddam Hussein didn't, and he is gone.
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