(McClatchy) Jay Ambrose - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to Washington in March to talk to Congress about ways to keep Iran from going nuclear and wiping his country off the map. But why is the trip necessary? It's the fear that a nuclear agreement will be negotiated with terrorist-aiding Iran with insufficient safeguards to prevent its proceeding happily on its weapons-of-mass-destruction path. There is no reasonable doubt that Iranians have been pursuing nuclear weaponry - we would not otherwise even be talking to them - and that the only way the U.S. and other involved countries could get them to discuss the matter in the first place was sanctions threatening to wreck the Iranian economy. Meanwhile, according to knowledgeable voices, Iran has gotten closer than ever to bomb-making capability.
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