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September 12, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/netanyahu-and-obama-need-a-marriage-counselor/262256/

Netanyahu's Anxiety Is Not Unreasonable

(Atlantic) Jeffrey Goldberg - The White House position is that the U.S. will keep Iran from possessing a nuclear bomb. It is fair to ask, as Bibi is asking: Does that mean you will let them have a warhead design, sufficient enriched uranium, and a missile system capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, so long as they don't actually finish building the device and then mating it to a delivery system? In other words, what if Iran is only technically non-nuclear? What if it would only take Iran a month to put together a nuclear bomb from the moment the decision is made? What will you do then? And how will you know, for sure, that they are doing it? American officials have promised Israel and the Arab states that their intelligence is good enough that they will know when Iran is approaching the nuclear threshold. But obviously the record of the American intelligence community is not without its flaws.

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