Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy

by Kenneth Pollack,
The Jerusalem Post, February 7, 2014

Kenneth Pollack believes that "by any standards, the Iranian regime is odious. It is oppressive. It is authoritarian." He is convinced that the world, the Middle East and the people of Iran would be better off if the regime were gone. He believes as well that Iran is intent on attaining a nuclear weapons capability. And he fears that the choices available to the United States and Israel have narrowed to two, each of them fraught with danger: a war to prevent Iran from joining the nuclear club, or learning to live with that reality.