Ho-Hum: Get Used To No Israel Soon

"Iran will be able to develop enough weapons-grade material for a nuclear bomb and there is little that can be done to prevent it, an internal European Union document has concluded. [ I'm guessing that this will be turned into another Bush "lie" within a few months. I don't know how they'll do it but I find myself continually gobsmacked by what the netroots manage to believe. -ed. ]

In an admission of the international community’s failure to hold back Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the document – compiled by the staff of Javier Solana, EU foreign policy chief – says the atomic programme has been delayed only by technical limitations rather than diplomatic pressure. “Attempts to engage the Iranian administration in a negotiating process have not so far succeeded,” it states." [ D'oh. By the way, I'm always struck by how little Middle-East history folks know. There is good evidence that Israel had a couple of nukes available during the 1967 war and probably about 13 during the 1973 war. The Arabs had a good suspicion that the Israelis had nukes during the 1967 war and certainly believed it during the 1973 war. Yet to war they went anyway. Lunatics. (The other option of course is that they don't believe their own rhetoric about how evil the Nazi-Israelis are.) -ed. ]