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In his Washington Post column, Eugene Robinson checks in on concerns about the Iranian nuclear program and concludes that U.S. military involvement would carry far greater consequences than the "tragic invasion and occupation of Iraq." Suggested Reading Three Friends Were Headed To A Beyoncรฉ Concert, But One Dies On the Way. Guess What The Other…

In his Washington Post column, Eugene Robinson checks in on concerns about the Iranian nuclear program and concludes that U.S. military involvement would carry far greater consequences than the "tragic invasion and occupation of Iraq."

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Weโ€™ve heard this quickening drumbeat before. Last time, it led to the tragic invasion and occupation of Iraq. This time, if we let the drummers provoke us into war with Iran, the consequences will likely be far worse.

Rat-ta-tat-tat. Weapons of mass destruction. Boom-shakka-boom. A madman in charge. Thump-thump-thump. Mushroom clouds.

Tune out the anxiety-inducing percussion and think for a minute. Yes, there are good reasons to be concerned about the Iranian nuclear program. But it doesnโ€™t follow that launching a military attack โ€” or providing support for an attack by Israel โ€” would necessarily be effective, let alone wise. The evidence suggests it would be neither.

Obviously, Iranian officials are lying when they say that their nuclear program is entirely for peaceful purposes. But it is clear that Iran does not yet have the ability to build a nuclear weapon โ€” and unclear whether the Iranian government, if and when it does achieve that capability, will take that final provocative step.

Covert operations believed to have been carried out by Israeli intelligence agents, perhaps with U.S. assistance โ€” a diabolically clever computer virus that crippled many of Iranโ€™s enrichment centrifuges, along with the targeted assassinations of key Iranian scientists โ€” have significantly slowed Iranโ€™s progress toward being able to make a bomb. It is reasonable to assume that such actions, and their effectiveness, will continue.

Read Eugene Robinson's entire column at the Washington Post.

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