Sunday, December 9, 2007
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Jeff Jacoby: No reason to relax on Iran - '...Chalk up another win for the Iraq war. If the NIE is taken at face value, the mullahs stopped their efforts to weaponize uranium in 2003 "primarily in response to international pressure." Now what could that be referring to? There is only one plausible candidate: the invasion of Iraq and toppling of Saddam Hussein. Add the Iranians' purported nuclear retreat, then, to the list of dividends generated by the Iraq war: The overthrow of the Arab world's bloodiest tyranny. The surrender by Muammar Qadhafi of Libya's weapons of mass destruction...'
