Ambassador Michael Oren quotes Bernard Lewis
5:55 Michael Oren: What happens when this country, this malign country, gets hold of a nuclear weapon? What are they going to do? And you have to proceed under the assumption that, hey, they are going to use it! This is not like the Cold War, this is not mutually assured destruction where one side has nuclear weapons, the other side has nuclear weapons, and they have a certain logic that prevents them from using it. I did part of my education at Princeton and my professor was this wonderful professor named Bernard Lewis, British …
Winston Marshall: Really? I am a huge fan. I have several of his books.
Michael Oren: He was my professor, and he used to always say to me: Michael, Mutually Assured Destruction for the Iran regime is not deterrence, it’s an incentive. Like that line? I wish I had made up that line.
