Who said �Iran�s development of a nuclear weapon, I believe, is unacceptable and we have to mount an international effort to prevent that from happening�? It wasn�t Benjamin Netanyahu. No, Pres. Barack Obama said that at his first press conference after winning the 2008 election.

The clock is ticking ominously on that front. �We feel a sense of urgency,� an Israeli spokesman said as Prime Minister Netanyahu prepared for his first meeting with Obama since both were elected. All Israelis feel that sense of urgency because they have watched, frustrated, as the Bush administration signed on to a lengthy series of negotiations with Iran headed by the Europeans. With U.S. approval, the Europeans offered a smorgasbord of incentives for Iran to give up its nuclear program. They were met with meetings and more meetings. Iran agreed to nothing except more meetings in an attempt to run out the clock. Tick. Tick. Tick.