So much is being said and written about Israel’s remarkable military and intelligence attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities in the last week and now about whether the United States should enter the war and use the B2 Bomber and huge ordinance that President Obama commissioned 10 years ago in order to send a clear message to Iran that should negotiations for the Iran Deal not be completed, there was a military option available to the United States to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.

I offer here two of the most thoughtful discussions I have read and listened to.

The first is an article that appeared this week in Foreign Affairs written by Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and Steven N. Simon, a Visiting Professor and Distinguished Fellow at Dartmouth College who previously served on the U.S. National Security Council and in the U.S. Department of State – “America Should End Israel’s War on Iran – Not Join It: How Trump Can Prevent a Disastrous Escalation.” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/america-should-end-israels-war-iran-not-join-it

The second is a 20 minute-interview  on the Substack The Contrarian by former Washington Post columnist and Contrarian co-founder Jen Rubin with Wendy Sherman, former United States Deputy Secretary of State in the Biden Administration and the lead negotiator for the United States in the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” (JCPOA) – otherwise known as the “Iran Deal” – that President Trump cancelled in 2017: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/is-the-us-about-to-be-dragged-into?r=53ubpn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=tru