While Gantz has a point
regarding Israel
losing deterrence to Hamas, should we not be discussing whether Gantz
understands that Israel’s nuclear deterrence would not work with a nuclear
Iran?
The main story should not
be whether Iran hacked into Gantz’s phone, but whether Gantz understands that
the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine is most probably dead when Iran is
concerned. As former CIA Director James
Woolsey put it: “We were, in a way, lucky
with our opponent in the Cold War because they were thugs with a cover
story. They were not, on the whole, sociopaths. Unfortunately, the Castro model,
the Hitler model, the model of the sociopath is one we may well need to deal with
in Iran . And it
should not provide any kind of relief to hear from either the former head of
Israeli intelligence, or anybody else, that they are rational. They may well be
quite tactically quite shrewd and rational. The Persians invented chess, they are
quite good at it. But rational in that sense doesn’t mean that you are not a
sociopath, after the model of Castro and others.”
Scholars Bernard
Lewis, Raphael
Israeli and Mathias
Kuntzel, along with former CIA director James
Woolsey and former Pentagon official Harold
Rhode all believe that a nuclear Iran cannot be deterred.
Unless our political leadership, including Gantz, find out the truth for
themselves, they will, to quote Churchill,
‘have
committed an act of abdication of duty without parallel.’