"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message

You've missed the elephant in the living room. Israel is
a nuclear power and no amount of sanctions or bombing will
ever prevent "the natives" from becoming a nuclear power
so long as Israel has the bomb.

If the US is hell bent on nuking rogue nuclear states, we'd
be better off in terms of our own national interest nuking
Israel instead of Iran.

that development is old history. Yes, the allowance of Israeli nukes is a
sore spot in the region. I forgot to mention them, but no doubt Israel is a
key ingredient driving Iranians to demand nuclear status. Whether Israel
could act with the impunity they showed with Iraq again would be an
interesting question. I, for some reason, doubt they would do much unless
there were clear evidence of near-bomb readiness, but frankly, that is just
a guess(commonplace on ROFF, just seldom admitted-to).
Tom