"America, for its part, was hellbent on denying Iran that future—but too chicken-shit to take out the Ayatollah. That’s the schizophrenia at the heart of U.S. foreign policy. Fifty years of dithering, posturing, and half-measures have brought us to this moment."
Huge respect to you and your writing. But "fifty years" is a convenient bracket for US perspective on Iran. 75-80 years would be a more honest one. We can blame the Ayatollah and Iran's extremism all we want as those things are now true. But to fail to mention how they got there in this context does a disservice to fundamental truth about who we are and our role in who they are.
This is absurd. The world’s best experts said it would take 3-8 for Iran to build a nuclear bomb. It took North Korea about that long. I have no reason to think that timetable has changed and both Mossad and the CIA say Iran has no nuclear weapons program.
"America, for its part, was hellbent on denying Iran that future—but too chicken-shit to take out the Ayatollah. That’s the schizophrenia at the heart of U.S. foreign policy. Fifty years of dithering, posturing, and half-measures have brought us to this moment."
Huge respect to you and your writing. But "fifty years" is a convenient bracket for US perspective on Iran. 75-80 years would be a more honest one. We can blame the Ayatollah and Iran's extremism all we want as those things are now true. But to fail to mention how they got there in this context does a disservice to fundamental truth about who we are and our role in who they are.
If you want to go back to the revolution we can… but for the nuclear deal… going back 20 is enough.
This is absurd. The world’s best experts said it would take 3-8 for Iran to build a nuclear bomb. It took North Korea about that long. I have no reason to think that timetable has changed and both Mossad and the CIA say Iran has no nuclear weapons program.
Great post. I am shocked, just shocked that Taco Don screwed this up.