Iran's Nukes: How Much Time Is Left?

Love this lead, from a NY Daily News editorial today:

The point, when it comes to dealing with Iran's unmistakable nuclear intentions, is that time is quickly running out on just how much longer anyone can reasonably stand around musing that time is quickly running out.

We'll be speaking Farsi before long if Tehran's mad mullahs have their way, and it is lamentably the case that they're far stronger today than they were a couple of years ago, thanks to the hand-wringing European allies of ours who deluded themselves that diplomacy might actually persuade these deranged medieval gangsters to follow accepted nuclear accountability rules.

As I've said before, the Daily News sees Russia and China is key in this crisis, and that is not very comforting.

Let the diplomacy quickly run its course. But at the end of the day, barring a major shift in Iran's internal politics, we will be at a point where diplomacy has run its course and all it's accomplished is allowing the Mullahs to get that much closer to their dream of Islam-in-a-bomb.

At that moment, we'd better be very well poised to consider the horrific necessity of military operations against the mad Mullahs. A sobering, frightening thought. Almost, but not quite, as nasty as the thought of Amadinijan pursuing his Islamic end-time fantasies with Koranic verses painted on his missiles.

h/t RCP