Scowcroft on Iran

Brent Scowcroft, a former national security advisor for Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, has written an interesting piece for The Australian that presents a different (and less belligerent) approach to the question of Iran's nuclear capabilities (link here). I definitely recommend reading the whole article, but here's the general idea of it:

What is needed is an international guarantor so countries that lack an indigenous fuel-enrichment cycle would always have access to nuclear fuel. Indeed, it may be in the interests of the leading nuclear states (perhaps under the auspices of the G8) to subsidise such a program, so that no country would have an economic rationale to defy the ban and proceed with developing an indigenous fuel cycle, on the grounds that relying on the international system might prove too costly.

The program he presents is very reasonable, and seems like it could make a lot of progress toward establishing a safer world. Of course his proposal is more complicated than just what is in the quote above, so once again I recommend reading the whole thing.