PrintFebruary 9, 2006
No Good Options
An eloquent statement in the Jerusalem Post Tuesday makes the case for a formal international indictment against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the genocide—threatening President of Iran. Unfortunately, the legal option proposed by the Jerusalem Post writers is unrealistic. There are no international police able to arrest Ahmadinejad, or to compel his regime to stop its nuclear rush. Even harsh military and economic pressures might not stop it.
One can imagine a decapitation strike against the leadership, but Ahmadinejad is not the only bad character in this crowd. He is just one of them.
Israel's options are few in number, and not very reassuring. Even those countries and individuals who care not a whit for Israel have a stake in the outcome.
Ahmadinejad may violate our basic assumption about weapons of mass destruction, that no rational person would use them to commit national suicide. If we believe what Ahmadinejad says in public, he defies the logic that kept the nuclear...(Read Full Article)
