by Doctor Science
'Cause we love peace and motherhood.
As you may recall, in early August The Atlantic published an article by Jeffrey Goldberg about how Israel and Iran are getting "to the point of no return" because of Iran's nuclear program. The article got a lot of online and other media attention, so much that The Atlantic put together an online debate that ran August 16-25.
I made an effort to be one of the people reading and commenting on the debate there. You can read my daily extracts here:
- Days 1-2: who's driving this bus, Israel or the US?.
- Day 3: would a strike work? realism at the White House?.
- Day 4: the Long Game and containment.
- Day 5: how threatening is the threat?.
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Days 6-7 (or so): If force is the answer, what is the question?.
- Day 8: Should we give peace a chance?.
Those links doubtless qualify as "tl;dr" for non-masochists. The highlights of the discussion, for me: