Amitai Etzioni is quoting a Council on Foreign Relations type saying we have to live with a nuclear Iran. He won't say who. For weeks I've meant to record a similar data point: that Fareed Zakaria said as much on Charlie Rose May 1. Charlie: "You believe we almost have to accept the reality that Iran will have nuclear… weapons?"
FZ: "I hope that we can find ways to provide them with very strong disincentives…[But] I think we could live with a world with Iranian nuclear weapons. I would prefer not… we should make them pay a price."
Zakaria goes on to say that Iran should be deprived of WTO membership and the rest, but he says we deterred the Soviet Union and China, we can deter Iran too. No mention of Israeli nukes, that I heard anyway.
I didn't listen to the whole thing. Shalom Freedman, an active commenter on such issues, says Zakaria also said that we should negotiate with Hamas. "He finds elements in them willing for peace with
Israel. I think he is wrong about this."
