Wretchard says that diplomacy won’t prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Not that this is news, but it’s useful to continue to point out to the naifs who fantasize otherwise.

This is probably the largest global crisis we’ve faced since the Cold War, and possibly since 1938, though it wasn’t recognized as that serious a crisis at the time. We will either have to accept the reality of a nuclear Iran (and a nuclear Iran run by mullahs, not by the Iranian people) or a war with Iran to prevent that, at whatever the cost. Neither option has a low cost, but at some point, I hope that the nation will recognize that the cost of the latter will be lower.

I’ve lived through most of the Cold War, when we grew up thinking that our nuclear incineration was almost inevitable, with duck and cover drills in elementary school, but in many ways, I fear the future now more than I have at any previous time in my life of half a century.

We are in for ugly times, not long from now, and the best we can hope for at this point is to minimize the horror, because we’ve allowed a new totalitarianism to grow, unhampered, for too long. Let us just hope that we can act sooner than Chamberlain did.