James Forsyth James Forsyth

Why Bush isn’t wrong about Iran

“So I’ve told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”

Lots of people will recoil at Bush’s Texan directness, one might almost say glibness, on this point. But there’s no getting away from the fact that he’s right, even if he is engaging in some hyperbole. 

There is no way that Israel is going to accept a country pledged to its destruction going nuclear and so either the world stops Iran through sanctions or someone does it by force.

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