McGrath is right on this one. If the United States pledged under no circumstances to invade Iran and confronted Israel over its nuclear weapons program, something might come of it. The invasion of Iraq proved to everyone that the only real preventative to American invasion is nuclear weapons. That is one reason why I opposed it: no one with any sense believed Irag had nuclear weapons, and the other weapons it might have had were trivial, part of the stupid carelessness in the use of the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" (the thing that killed Dr. Kelly was this stupid phrase). It was bound to escalate the demand for nuclear weapons. The Pakistanis and the North Koreans are on record as taking this lesson to heart. Part of one's despair at the American administration is this terrible, terrible stupidity that will drive us into a new escalation race.

yours,

Peter T.