The Nuclear Power Beside Iraq

No doubt, Iran's new president is a kook. There is also little doubt in my mind that his election was in direct response to our kook.

But is Iran suicidal? That seems to me to be the question. They have to know that if they were to strike the U.S., even if they could, their country would be turned into a graveyard in minutes.

The Nuclear Power Beside Iraq:

"A year and a half ago, Iran's nuclear ambition constituted a threat?but not yet a world crisis. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had not yet been elected president of the country, nor begun his declarations that the Holocaust never occurred and that modern Israel must be 'wiped from the map.' The mullah-dominated Iranian government was still evasive and uncooperative rather than flatly defiant when the United States and Europe demanded supervision of its nuclear programs by the International Atomic Energy Agency. It might even look favorably on the face-saving compromise the Russian government talked about, under which Iranians could build just about any nuclear power plant they wanted, thereby satisfying their announced desire to move beyond reliance on oil, as long as they left the reprocessing and enrichment of spent fuel, and therefore the potential for building nuclear weapons, in Russian hands on Russian soil. "