I know the sophisticated set likes to say that our invasion and liberation of Iraq have taught countries that the way to avoid invasion is to own nukes. While North Korea has inconveniently been seeking nukes and breaking agreements since the sensitive 1990s, the sophisticated could always gloss over that and comfort themselves with the idea that they still had Iran as proof of this position. That was hogwash, too, of course. And why?
Well:
Iran, through the black market network, had accumulated all the knowledge it needed by the late 1980s to set up technology that can be used to make atomic weapons, diplomats familiar with the work of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Saturday.
We cannot let Iran get nukes. There can simply be no way we should rationalize away their possession of these weapons.
