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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I thought someone here had linked to James Fallows' new article in The Atlantic about this, but apparently I was wrong, so here it is. Depressing stuff. Two years ago, The Atlantic convened a panel of experts.- The experts disagreed on some details but were nearly unanimous on one crucial point: what might seem America’s ace in the hole—the ability to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations in a pre-emptive air strike—was a fantasy. When exposed to “What then?” analysis, this plan (or a variant in which the United States looked the other way while Israel did the job) held more dangers than rewards for the United States."
In the intervening two years, it's only gotten worse.
Not a long article, and definitely worth reading. My recollection was that Fallows wrote a much longer piece about this subject for The Atlantic -- I was thinking it was six months ago, but maybe it was soon after they did this exercise.
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I remember reading that at the time. So what are we left with? Hoping that they don't use them or give them to others? Regime change?
