The Obama administration has made clear they will accept the best deal they can get from Iran, however bad that deal may be. Joshua Murvachik, a neocon Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins University, has written for
The Washington Post a
column that bluntly advocates war with Iran. Two quotes follow:
What if force is the only way to block Iran from gaining nuclear weapons? That, in fact, is probably the reality. Ideology is the raison d’etre of Iran’s regime, legitimating its rule and inspiring its leaders and their supporters.
Sanctions have never stopped a nuclear drive anywhere. Does this mean that our only option is war? Yes, although an air campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure would entail less need for boots on the ground than the war Obama is waging against the Islamic State, which poses far smaller a threat than Iran does.
Murvachik concludes:
Yes, there are risks to military action. But Iran’s nuclear program and vaunting ambitions have made the world a more dangerous place. Its achievement of a bomb would magnify that danger manyfold. Alas, sanctions and deals will not prevent this.
