Armageddon
Jay Nordlinger:
John Negroponte, former director of national intelligence, former ambassador in Iraq, former a lot of things. . . . Let me tell you what he said about Iran and nukes — sobering words, given what the man must know: “I think that’s what they want, I think that’s what they’re headed towards, I think that’s what they’re going to get.” Shortly after Negroponte became DNI in 2005, his office estimated that Iran would have a nuclear weapon sometime between 2010 and 2015. “I don’t believe that that assessment has essentially changed,” he says. But don’t we have the means to stop the Iranians? Negroponte: “I think we can delay them through sanctions, through import restrictions, through working with other countries. But definitively stop them? Even if you used coercive means, I think it would be quite difficult by now.”