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Nuclear Iran

You know those times when you are watching a football game on TV and the halfback takes the hand off and cuts through the defenders and is gone? And you know how, sometimes, the safeties are not in a position to have any chance of catching him, but the cornerback chases him all the way down the field anyway? Just running after the guy, knowing they can't catch him but also knowing that if they just stop, they are giving that halfback an extra moral victory?

Well, we're that cornerback.

The west's confrontation with Iran over its nuclear activities intensified yesterday after Britain claimed that Tehran could acquire the technological capability to build a bomb by the end of the year.
A day after the International Atomic Energy Agency referred the dispute to the United Nations security council, British officials also indicated that London would back Washington's efforts to impose a UN deadline of about 30 days for Iran's compliance with international demands.

Or else we will do what? Face it, we aren't going to do anything that will stop them from getting the bomb. The only thing that can stop Iran now is a catastrophic earthquake or a large meteor that destroys the sites where the technology is being developed.

A senior Foreign Office official said that while it could take Iran several years to build a serviceable nuclear weapon, it might gain the technical knowhow within months. "By the end of the year is a ... realistic period," said the official. "It would be really damaging to regional security if Iran even acquired the technology to enable it to develop a nuclear weapon."

Until now, European diplomats have referred to a period of five to 10 years during which Iran might potentially build a bomb, while conceding that hard evidence is lacking. By publicly focusing on the level of Iran's technical capabilities, Britain may have shortened the timeframe for a peaceful resolution of the crisis.

Face it! Iran has the technology to build nukes. They may not actually have it today, but there will be no stopping them. They are at the 10-years, the 5, the couple-of-months yard line...

So now what? Are we at all prepared to deal with a nuclear Iran? This is the country we call the most active state sponsor of terrorism - how should we be looking at this, exactly?

Diplomats say that the west is prepared to enact sanctions that will hurt the regime in Tehran, but not the Iranian people. Considering the track record with other nations, I don't believe that for one moment. This is only going to get uglier.