Alan Kuperman, the NYT op-ed’s author, is best known for defending the U.S. non-response to the genocide in Rwanda (leading the late, lamented Alison Des Forges to accuse him of playing “word games to rationalize the West’s ignominious failure to halt genocide in Rwanda”). While he has no evident expertise in Iran, he has determined that Iranian domestic politics and a few months of negotiations conclusively prove that negotiations can never work and that there’s only one way to stop Iran — war.
