fonow, israel isrepared to let other countri take e lead in confroing iran, hoping the threat of harsher sanctions will persuaderan to revealhe truentent of its nucar ambitions. >> e emphas at the mome is on e diomat efft. but at the same time i thi it is important to keep the option open for the future. i think it ould be the agenda in order to prevt the iranians with thesanctions that they might have to face. >> n, would an israi air stke againstiran's nuclear facilities even be effective? that was the subject of this column, which appeare in last we's "wall stre journal," and ich was written by our next guest, anthony cordesman a noted nional security alyst is the chair in strategy at the center for strategic nd internatiol studies, and he joins us from washinon. anthony, describeo us the difficultieshat israelis would facen launching an air strike agnst iran. >> in many ways,the most serious diffulty is knowi how many targets there are and extly how to strike them. because it'sot only a matter of locating them. many of the are complexes with a large numr of buildings. some are underg

if the same thing that i goes fonow goes for the police -- if the same thing goes for the police and army, that is seen as successful. we are going to have to work at a local level more and working with troubled chiefs, recognizes some of the problems that we perhaps did not recognize in the beginning about how they wish to operate themselves and sometimes working with the grain. i believe that these objectives are deliverable. it depends on the will of the whole coalition. >> here in the front row. >> just two questions, one about the at the steering and one about objectives. -- just one about the adversary. one thing that has not been mentioned is that it has looked increasingly as though we have blundered without intending to do so into a war with nationalism. that has been one element in the insurrection that has affected us. i am wondering if you can say something about how you a imagine the possibility of the pashtoon elements may be separated. you said that you would address the objection that an afghan state cannot be built and tel. to many it seems that up until now, there h