[Skybird]

It is a difficult dilemma. For us.

For Israel, it is the choice between a nuclear holocaust or not. Which makes their choice easy and explains their determination. It is not important whether we take Iran's threats serious or not, our interpretations mean nothing. That Israel takes them as what they are being given is what counts. And I cannot blame them for doing so.

My position is clear, and has been since years. Iranian nukes are totally unacceptable and must be prevented, no matter what. Israel alone probably can only delay and buy some time. But with the US, I demand a greater ambition to not just delay but to turn into microscopic pieces all installations related to a nuclear weapon program. What stands in the way to that objective, must get shattered, too. By as little violence as possible but as much as is needed to guarantee the achieving of all objectives.

Priority is not to not do this and not to use that. Priority is to achieve the objectives.

The alternative, to which Obama probably already has subscribed, is to live with a nuclear arms race of uncalculatable proportions and in a fundamentally unstable region filled with tribal minds having open bills, and religious hysterics, hot-blooded supremacists and apostles of apocalypse. This scenario I fear more than any other. It is instabile, unpredictable, and in no way compares to the stable, rational cold war between East and West.

Damn, I really miss the cold war. And no, Jimbuna, again I am not joking.