Monday, August 01, 2005

Critical Mass

Iran is poised to make another run for nuclear weapons.

Ledeen has much in this article:

  • There is more on Iran's human rights violations.
  • More on unrest in Iran.
  • More on the purges showing that even the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) aren't necessarily reliable pillars of the regime.
  • More on Iranian support for terrorists inside Iraq.
  • More on the continuing saga of European failure to get Iran to halt nuclear progress.

I think we will deal with Iran. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is almost full. But the President does not want to call for a revolt inside Iran that we can't yet support. I believe the President will publicly support the regime opposition when we are prepared to back our words with concrete action.

And we need to act. I have no confidence that our intelligence can tell us with any certainty that Iran is X number of years away from nukes. They just aren't that good. Iran has already bought a couple years of time from those gullible Europeans. Has it been enough?

Or will we act in time?