Loyola on Iran's Nuclear Program

In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal Europe, FDD Visiting Fellow Mario Loyola argued that

(1) The U.S. and its allies must be prepared to respond with military action if Iran withdraws from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

(2) The U.N. Security Council’s sanctions against Iran have failed — and will continue to fail — unless the West makes it clear that withdrawal from the IAEA will be considered a hostile act.

Comments

[Mark Eichenlaub]

Let's just hope the U.S.'s will to act hasn't been neutered through the constant undermining of our attempts to install a democracy in a post terror sponsoring dictatorship in Iraq.

[davod]

Beware the military mutiny if the adminstration moves against Iran. Some in the military are so tied to a point of view, the Powell Doctrine (stolen from an earlier boss) for instance, or a political position (maybe this should have come first), that they may well feel the need to protest to the Demonrats and the press about the moves.

Notwithstanding the above, the requirement to telegraph every move for political and international cover will doom any attempt to large casualties or prisoners at the outset.