The NYT was also complicit in the propaganda run-up for selling the ill-conceived attack and invasion on Iraq.<p>The author of the NYT article, John Bolton, is a card carrying neoconservative - a group that I think is motivated both by war profiteering and flawed ideology.<p>The war mongers never go back and look at the history of bad outcomes from US interventions in other countries (e.g., overthrowing the popular democratically elected leader of Iran in the 1950s, what we did in Guatemala, etc.)
Why is it okay to sit back and do nothing as Iran builds nuclear capability while shouting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America?" Why is it okay to sit back as Iran forces other regional powers such as Saudi Arabia to restart their own nuclear programs?<p>Iran's leadership is under the grip of a expansionistic, fundamentalist religious ideology. If nothing changes, this could result in a nuclear war within the next fifteen years.