"...Dealing with Iran, Barnett said, means accepting "that they’ve achieved what we don’t want, or what we have a hard time accepting, and that’s that they are in the great power club."
Which means "we’re not going to invade them," Barnett said. "We’re not going to go nuclear on them pre-emptively. Neither will Israel. Their connections to the Indians and Chinese are too big to blow off –- and to the Russians. So they’re in the club. A lot of people are not too happy about it -- but we sorta need them on both Iraq and Afghanistan anyway, so deal with that."
In Wired's DangerRoom, here
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