Nathanael Blake
In “The Devil’s Dictionary,” Ambrose Bierce noted that, “War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.” With regard to the impending Iranian atomic bomb, it should be appended that professions of eternal irritation don’t do much for prospects of peace either.
The mullahs’ latest defiance may have finally convinced Western liberals that polite negotiations will not slake Iran’s nuclear thirst, though many are like…