The Iran Game, Round Two
How is the world different if Iran DOESN'T have a nuclear weapons program, as the CIA now says?
The dominant debate here in America nowadays is that Iran will be America’s main challenge in the years to come. I would say the Bush administration has made Iran a challenge in at least in two ways: Iran’s nuclear weapons threat, and Iran’s rise to the status of regional power. Thanks to the NIE report, at least the first of these has been reduced, and therefore the possibility of going into an unwanted war is now lower.

