Richard Betts, in a long Foreign Affairs essay on deterrence, talks about Iran:
Nevertheless, rather than planning to deter a prospective Iranian nuclear arsenal, the United States and Israel have preferred preventive war. Although many still hope to turn Iran away from nuclear weapons through sanctions and diplomacy, the debate within and between the United States and Israel over what to do if Iran moves to produce a bomb is about not whether to attack but when. U.S. President Barack Obama has firmly declared that he has not a “policy of containment” but rather “a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” and other administration officials have repeatedly emphasized this point. As promises in foreign policy go, this one is chiseled in stone. Backing down from it when the time comes would be the right thing to do but would represent an embarrassing retreat.
The logic behind rejecting…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Dec 11, 2014 @ 20:36:00
Let us get real given Israel has over 200 nukes it aint going to attack Israel.
The only reason I ran would want nukes is because Israel has them.
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