Gerald Seib's column "Key to Talks Is to Show Iran the Cost of Nuclear Ambition" (Capital Journal, Nov. 26) ably discusses the dilemmas facing the six world powers as well as Iran. However, these talks assume that Iran is run by a rational government with Western values.
In reality, Iran is a dictatorship that manages a professional terror organization which pretends to be a legitimate government. Rational negotiations can never be successful unless combined with the threat and reality of military intervention. Allowing the Iranian terror organization to possess nuclear weapons would constitute an existential threat to America and all of Western civilization. In net, the end of Iranian nuclear weapons can only be accomplished through an ultimatum, not through negotiations. The sooner we set a deadline, the better off we all will be.
Kenneth Abramowitz
New York
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 