Last Friday [Aug 20], the New York Times reported that the Obama administration had convinced Israel that there was no need to rush on the issue.... In other words, despite [Jeffrey] Goldberg's breathless two-minutes-to-midnight schedule, there's no urgency whatsoever about debating military action against Iran....

Perhaps, after all these years of obsessive Iran nuclear mania, it's too much to request a moment of sanity on the issue of Iran and the bomb.... If...we really have a couple of years to think this over, what about starting by asking three crucial questions, each of which our debaters would prefer to avoid or ignore?