Iran's Bomb

Well, it's a new month. And we know what that means. Cato Unbound has a new topic. Several weeks late, but as they pointed out, it is timely. Iran and the bomb. And our bombs. And the possibility of their conjunction. Or the use of ours to prevent theirs. Well, you get the point. And Reuel Gerecht leads off arguing for intervention.

This month, due to my limited knowledge of military options in the theatre, I'll have very little to say. The exception is to point out that since everyone seems to agree that at best we can delay Iran going nuclear, it would seem that only planning what to do before they get the bomb is, well, short sighted. And we want our sights on this issue to be set at least a bit past whenever Iran gets the bomb, to whether they will use it, and who they will give it to. Because something that scares me worse than Iran having the bomb is what Iran does once it thinks about the fact that the nukes it will have can be used as bombs, as well as for their political leverage.