November 5, 2024

2 thoughts on “Rosett Visits Cornell

  1. Just to clarify: did Rosett argue for strategic attacks against Iranian nuclear targets or for a full-fledged military operation to unseat the current Iranian regime?

    Here’s the relevance of the distinction: Professor von Hippel, whose talk I wrote about in a previous post, said that Ahmadinejad openly said to weapons inspectors that if Iran were hiding nuclear facilities somewhere in the country, weapons’ inspectors would obviously not be able to find them. So, destroying strategic nuclear targets may only be a temporary solution. A ground invasion has obvious (tremendous, I would say) complications as well.

  2. strategic attacks against the nuclear targets only. In terms of intelligence, I don’t think Prof. Von Hippel or any of us really know the exact specifications of the nuclear installations. Attacking the nuclear installations would obviously give the West time against the development of a bomb… should they have one.

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