Admiral Mullen on Iran
Noah Shachtmann passes along Admiral Mullen's thoughts on a military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities:
â??Iran getting a nuclear weapon would be incredibly destabilizing. Attacking them would also create the same kind of outcome,â? Mullen said. â??In an area thatâ??s so unstable right now, we just donâ??t need more of that.â?
He went on to say:
â??I worry about Iran achieving a nuclear weapons capability. There are those that say, â??Câ??mon Mullen, get over that. Theyâ??re gonna get it. Letâ??s deal with that.â?? Well, dealing with it has [results] that I donâ??t think weâ??ve all thought through. I worry other countries in the region will then seek -â?? actually, I know they will seek â?? nuclear weapons as well. And the spiral headed in that direction is a very bad outcome,â? Mullen said.
As Shachtmann observes, this is a situation with absolutely no good outcomes in sight.
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