In a year or two, we would be distracted and Iraq would be back in the nuke-building business.
Foreign leaders must be allowed to attend these sessions, no matter how Israel-threatening, Holocaust-denying, nuke-building and child-hanging they may be.
Israel's pre-emptive attack on Iraq's plutonium-making Osirak reactor aroused global indignation in 1981, but it evokes mostly relief today, knowing what we now know about the pace of Saddam's nuke-building effort.
Once a year, the Israel-threatening, Holocaust-denying, nuke-building and child-hanging president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, comes to New York for the opening ceremonies of the United Nations General Assembly.
"If you ask me," the Smithsonian's Jonathan Coddington said, "I'd nuke that Goodwill building".
After all, external pressure did not stop Israel, Pakistan, India, South Africa or North Korea from building nukes.
The plan's validation could represent conclusive proof that Iranian denials it is building nukes are false.
One senior administration official characterized the North Korean's diplomatic approach tonight as "a bit bizarre, but perhaps more constructive than building nukes".
As we now know, the Carter-Clinton crowd was taken to the cleaners by a totalitarian regime that snatched our payoff and secretly kept on building nukes.
Avoiding war and conflict, naturally, comes top of the list, whether by co-operation over North Korean and Iranian nukes or by building the trust that minimises the odds of a clash in the Taiwan Strait.
