There are some important differences between the United States and Iran.

So far, at least, the United States has never gone so far to extremes as to turn its national government over to fanatics or religious zealots. I grant you the last eight years have come close, but I think on balance they don't fully qualify.

As suicide bombers all over the world have demonstrated time and again, religious fanatacism completely overrides a due regard for secular balance. It opens the door for moral absolutism which simply renders the commons more toxic.

Because of this difference, and other related differences in culture, it makes a LOT of sense to require Iran not to develop nuclear weapons.

How that requirement should be prosecuted is a very different question.


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