Scowcroft: "We're on the cusp of an explosion of proliferation and Iran is now the poster child,"

Reuters, here

"....But Scowcroft and another former U.S. national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, counseled against using military force to try to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. They said negotiations with Tehran should be pursued instead......Brzezinski,... agreed that proliferation may be the greater threat from Iran's nuclear programs, rather than the danger that Tehran would make the "suicidal" move of firing the first bomb it built......Talks were preferable to a military conflict with Iran, which would "absolutely devastate the historical legacy of the Obama administration," Brzezinski said..."