Shoot
I missed this while writing the previous post.
Obviously, it's worrying that Ahmadinejad is making provocative statements like "Iran has joined the club of nuclear countries," even he appears to be using a definition of nuclear powerhood that would include Canada, for God's sake. That said, as the article notes this particular announcement still puts them years away from a bomb, and while I'm sure that the clandestine programme is further along there's still time to exhaust diplomacy before launching a second disastrous war.
posted by Ian Gray | 5:23 p.m.
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It's not hard to read this statement purely as the Iranian president boosting national pride, and attempting to win points domestically for his regime. Nuclear proliferation is inherently dangerous with unstable regimes; but it's not a cause for preventive war. At most, if one were a country that would be potentially targeted, it would be a cause for developing a nuclear deterrent. If the greatest realistic, likely risk from proliferation is more proliferation, it's a cause for intensive diplomacy, not war. As you say in your previous post, we need to give Iran something - a security guarantee, a public committment not to create permanent bases in Iraq from which an invasion could be launched, and end to the support for potential Iranian rebels, I don't know. Bush seems to act as if the US should never have to sacrifice anything in acheiving its objectives (except other people's money and lives, I suppose).
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