If this is Ahmadinejad's bluff, it is bluff worth calling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1771225,00.html
The only route to regime change and disarmament is engagement, so the
US must respond to this week's letter from Tehran
Simon Jenkins
Wednesday May 10, 2006
The Guardian
For a British foreign secretary Iraq is easy. It has been Tony Blair's
personal, colossal, hubristic, career-wrecking mistake, and the Foreign
Office need only sit by and brush his tears with tissues. Iran is
different. Iran is hard, as the new foreign secretary, Margaret
Beckett, clearly found in New York on Monday.
Conventional wisdom can be summed up in a simple declaration that a
nuclear Iran one day may be undesirable but not half as undesirable as
a war on any scale likely to prevent it. Other things being equal, only
arms salesmen welcome nuclear proliferation. But for America and
Britain to extend military operations from Iraq and Afghanistan into
Iran and start bombing would be, as Jack Straw said, inconceivable and
"nuts".
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