If Iran suspended its nuclear development in 2003, as has been reported today, can we stop threatening to "take out" its nuclear sites? I for one would like to spend this Christmas season free of anxiety that WWIII is coming upon a midnight clear.
If we persist, it would have to be on the basis of Iran's hypothetical interference in Iraq (training tarists, importing IEDs, fomenting hatred of Americans -- as if Iraqis needed help on that front). I don't think that'll fly in the absence of the dreaded Nuclear Threat.
Then again, UN inspectors were on the ground in Iraq just before the war started. They were trying to tell us that there were no WMDs.
In these times, anything's possible.
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