The Iran problem with Hanson and Baer
Taped on October 20, 2009
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Does Iran possess the ability to produce nuclear weapons? Both Bob Baer and Victor Hanson agree that it does. On the questions that flow from this assertion, agreement is more difficult to find.
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What does Iran hope to accomplish by developing the bomb? Can the United States live with a nuclear Iran—can Israel? Israeli defense minister Ephraim Sneh in an October interview asserted that “if no crippling sanctions are in place by Christmas, Israel will strike….If we are left alone, we will act alone.”
Does Israel possess the ability to destroy the Iranian nuclear program?
With each month bringing another deception and diversion from Iran, what can the United States do to prevent a conflagration in the Middle East?
(39:56) Video transcript
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Guests:
Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a classicist and an expert on the history of war. A regular contributor to National Review Online and many other national and international publications, he has written or edited sixteen books, including theNew York Times bestseller Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. His most recent book is A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. He was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Bush in 2007. Robert Baer Former Case Officer, Central Intelligence Agency; Author, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism.
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Victor Davis Hanson (left), the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Robert Baer who spent 20 years at the CIA as a field officer covering the Middle East.
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