Oops. She didn't really mean it exactly that way, her aides said. But the comment nonetheless suggests President Obama may be ready to accept a nuclear-armed Iran. And, more important,
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he might counter it with either a missile defense system in the Middle East or perhaps – despite the denial of unnamed Clinton aides – a promise to regional allies of a US nuclear strike on Iran if it ever launched an atomic weapon.Hillary Clinton
A promise of US nuclear reprisal against Iran would be similar to the "mutual assured destruction" strategy used to contain the Soviet Union. And it would mirror the "nuclear umbrella" the US now provides NATO allies as well as Japan and South Korea.
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If the US is no longer hopeful about its diplomatic means to persuade Iran to shelve or abandon its nuclear ambition, that could make Israel all the more trigger-happy to take out Iran's nuclear facilities with a military strike. The likely result? A Middle East engulfed in war.
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Israel isn't ready to accept an Iran with nuclear capability, as Obama may be. Israel's very existence is at stake, especially when Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says Israel should not even exist.
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There are other ricochets from Mrs. Clinton's bombshell. Even if the US sets up a nuclear umbrella over Iran's jittery neighbors, such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Iran might be willing to risk American nuclear retaliation.
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