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IRAN SPECIFICS WATCH. Brad Delong writes:
Our best shot is to have the world's great powers bind themselves to oppose any change of regime in Iran other than through peaceful, democratic, internal means, and then to argue that Iran should abandon its nuclear ambitions for the sake of its people. But our best shot is not a very good one.See how easy that is?Elsewhere in the post, DeLong says, "For a small country, the best way to get your capital city off that list [of cities that are nuclear targets], the best way to protect your people, is to not have nuclear weapons in the first place." I find that curious. What set of assumptions would lead to Tel Aviv being less vulnerable without a nuclear weapon, or Tripoli more vulnerable with one? The closest I can come is that an unarmed country would be less likely to suffer a retaliatory second strike because their nation couldn't initiatie the offending first-strike...--Ezra Klein
