February 1, 2006

Iran – to bomb or not to bomb?

By Dennis Sevakis
Pundits of all stripes, dispositions and encampments are currently engaged in anxious if not frantic analyses of what to do about the nuclear ambitions of Iran and her 'fanatic' (to some 'lunatic') President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. To bomb or not to bomb, that is the question. Robert Kagan in his Washington Post piece 'It's the Regime, Stupid' votes for replacing the Iranian leadership over blasting away at potential nuclear weapons facilities that are on the surface, buried, visible or hidden. Do we know where all these facilities are located? Even if we do, do we have the capability of destroying or at least incapacitating those that are defensively buried? Mr. Kagan thinks not when he considers President Clinton's uncertain efforts to degrade Saddam's weapons programs through air strikes alone. We still don't know what effect, if any, these bombings had on Iraq's WMD programs. You can bury them, but you can't hide them In contrast to the facilities required to produce biological and...(Read Full Article)