Covert war

Iranian nuclear scientist killed in bomb attack http://t.co/0Vh6UlZe via @theatlanticwire -- TheAtlantic (@TheAtlantic)

Another strike for Mossad and the CIA. Another victory. Romney and the rest of the GOP field can say all they want that President Obama isn't taking a tough enough line on Iran, but that's nonsense. We can't, and don't want to, go to war with them to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon (or several). Sanctions, ultimately, don't work. We should keep applying them in a targeted fashion. But apply them too broadly and all we'll accomplish is creating a rally-around-the-flag effect.

So, sanctions won't work to stop it any may not even delay it. An invasion is impractical and no one wants it. Air strikes will be incredibly destabilizing and delay only marginally. A covert war, though, involving cyber war and assassinations etcetera, in conjunction with Mossad could also delay it years while only being a fraction part as destabilizing as air strikes.

If this is us and/or Mossad, and I would be totally unsurprised to discover it is, we're slowing the proliferation of these weapons into countries we don't like and who don't like us and doing it the best way possible (for us). Another foreign policy credit to President Obama.