Listening to John Bolton and the Iranian
threat, I was wondering how come Michael Oren decided tell the
truth about the true nature of the Iranian threat, something that even Bret
Stephens of the Wall Street Journal is reluctant to do?
In his LA Times op-ed “Why Obama is wrong about Iran
being ‘rational’ on nukes,” Oren writes:
“As famed Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis once observed, ‘Mutually assured
destruction’ for the Iranian regime ‘is not a deterrent – it’s an
inducement.’”
Now that I am reading his book, Ally, it becomes clear.
He writes “The program of Islamic philosophy, medieval and modern
history, and Arabic, was rigorous, and my professors - including the
preeminent Middle East scholar, Bernard Lewis – superb.”
The question is why did it take him so long to quote
Bernard Lewis on the death of the mutually assured destruction doctrine?
