Woops, I thought I posted about this morning but I didn’t actually “publish” it.

Last night Bill Richardson declared that we must have a “redline” with Iran: The Iranians must not be allowed to “use” nuclear weapons. I hope it was a slip of the tongue. But that’s a pretty goofy goal, no? How do you stop Iran from using nuclear weapons if you don’t have a red line barring them from getting them? The “realist” answer is “deterrence” but that just revives the question of whether the Iranians are realists and the safe answer seems to be that they’re not.