Be Seeing You (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

[Wonderment]

To tell someone they can't have their very own industrial infrastructure for the production of weapons of mass destruction -- that's a rather odd definition of "belligerence", don't you think?

No, I don't think so.

If Iran were to say to Israel, for example, "You can't have any nukes, and if we detect the evidence of any in your territory, we will bomb you," you'd probably agree that the ultimatum was belligerent, right?

Also, the US and Israel have almost certainly already committed acts of war (cyber war, explosions and assassinations of scientists) against Iran in an effort to prevent the country from developing nuclear energy and perhaps nuclear weapons.