War and those who wage it

[Undertoad]

I'm not sure what language that first sentence is in. Certainly not English.

Well it all depends, I suppose, on what you think of nuclear weapons. Those who were sentient and thoughtful before 1989 have lived under the threat of it, which turns it from something really really really bad into something that is unthinkable under ANY situation except for having been launched upon. That's the only diplomacy I would support.

We do not have to wait for the Iranians to have nukes, to have seen them use nuclear diplomacy unwisely. Ahmadinejad has talked about hopefully seeing the end of Israel "if we are just patient for a little while longer". This is unacceptable language from a country even dabbling in nukes. They don't get it.

If they wanted nukes as defense against Iraq, well we have sort of neutered that reasoning for the time being. Which makes it hopeful that a recent intelligence report suggested that the Iranian nuke program actually took a breather in 2003, stopping all work on it.