The real alternatives to diplomacy are much worse either rapid descent to a North Korea situation, with an unsupervised nuclear program leading inexorably to nuclear weapons and all their dangerously unpredictable regional consequences or an Iraq-like preventive military strike, with even more alarming regional and global consequences.
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This compromise should be compared neither to the fragile and unsustainable status quo, nor to some idealized, universally comfortable end-state.
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The trouble is that all of the steps that have been taken so far don't seem likely to produce an acceptable outcome.
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The stakes could hardly be higher. Neither side appears eager for a second war, but the situation is very fragile and to dismiss current tensions as mere saber-rattling would be a serious mistake.
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