I'm still livid over the New York Times' decision to publish an inflammatory piece by the respected Israeli historian Benny Morris entitled "Using Bombs to Stave Off War." The thrust of the article, which ran on Friday, July 18th, is that is that Israel must bomb Iran by the end of this year, as military action offers the only hope of ending Tehran's nuclear program. Going a step further, Morris expresses pessimism about whether even this will work to end Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, and suggests that absent strong international support to disarm Iran "an Israeli nuclear strike to prevent Iran from taking the final step toward getting the bomb is probable."

What is Morris thinking, and what were the Times editors thinking when they decided to run his article?

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