Politicians, Like Generals, Have A Tendency To

Iran Is Barely Over 50% Persian, And Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds And Many Other Groups Feel Left Out Of The Society. That Regime Has A Lot More Weaknesses Than People See.

We Estimate That Once Iraq Acquires Fissile Material - Whether From A Foreign Source Or By Securing The Materials To Build An Indigenous Fissile Material Capability - It Could Fabricate A Nuclear Weapon Within One Year.

The Press Tend To Stick With That The People Don't Care About Foreign Policy In Their Daily Lives And Aren't Concerned About It And So On And So Forth. I Don't Think That's Actually True.

I Haven't Given Up On The Possibility That Sweet Reason Will Prevail.

The Real Issue Of Dealing With Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Nuclear, Chemical Or Biological Is: What Is Your Tolerance For Risk? And My Tolerance For Risk For Wmd Proliferation Is Pretty Close To Zero. Because Otherwise, We And Our Allies Are At The Mercy Of Regimes Like Ahmadinejad And The Mullahs In Tehran, Or Kim Jong Il And The Hitler-in-the-bunker Mentality In Pyongyang, Or Others Who Don't Share Our Calculus On The Value Of Human Life.