Clarity on Iran

Rudy Guiliani’s lengthy interview last week with The Wall Street Journal is worth reading in its entirety. 

So what’s your bottom line [on Iran]?

My bottom line is that we can’t let them to become nuclear. I said that during the debates.

Does that mean taking all steps?

Whatever is necessary.

Including military?

Whatever is necessary.

Guiliani’s position is even clearer than the one Benjamin Netanyahu set forth in his June 3, 2006 interview with Ari Shavit in Haaretz (summarized here, but also worth reading in its entirety):

Isn’t it too late? Are we not fated to accept a nuclear Iran?

"Absolutely not. We have to prevent Iran from going nuclear."

At any price? By every means?

"We have to prevent Iran from going nuclear."

It is possible that, after elections in 2008, both the United States and Israel will be led by leaders with both moral and strategic clarity about Iran.