Advantage, Iran

From The Washington Times:

U.S. policy holds that Iran will not be permitted to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran doesn't feel it needs Washington's permission. Nuclear weapons represent the ultimate insurance card against regime change, will give Iran unprecedented leverage in the Middle East, and potentially will enable Tehran to assume an offensive posture against its enemies, including America, the "Great Satan."

The U.S. government is signaling to Tehran that Washington lacks the will to respond should Iran develop and test a nuclear weapon. This was made painfully clear by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who recently said that an Iranian bomb is "potentially a very, very destabilizing outcome" but taking military action to prevent it "also has a very, very destabilizing outcome." Equivocations like this instruct Tehran to continue on its current course because the United States can't tell the difference between a world with a nuclear Iran and a world without one.