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In this installment of our Live From CPAC series, Jay Nordlinger talks to former Ambassador John Bolton.
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Show of hands: Who believes that if Iran is going to get a nuclear weapon in the next few years, it will use it?
There is no way to be sure, but it’s not a chance I ‘d want to take. Put this way, if there is a 10% chance that Iran would use it, that’s not a percentage I’d want to live with.
I see sense in what you say. Of course, that implies that your foreign policy–I mean, American foreign policy–would have to calculate carefully what it would cost to prevent it. Of course, we’re all aware how successful your Messers. Clinton & Bush, Jr., were in paying for North Korea to acquire nuclear capabilities, so maybe this is fantasizing. While we’re at it, I feel the question of the Iranian nuke should be addressed together with the question of the Pakistani nuclear arsenal–now, there’s a country racing against Iran on the road to nuclear Muslim terrorists. By a show of hands, who believes Islamists, were they to overtake the regime, would use nuclear arms?