2. Do nothing and allow Iran to continue to flout the will of the International Community by continuing its unrelenting drive to acquire nuclear weapons. Without the third set of international sanctions, Iran will continue to be in a position to have nuclear weapons within a year and become a nuclear terrorist nation.”
So many problems in such a short paragraph. First, if we were to provide nuclear weapons to Taiwan, we would violate the NPT and be subject to sanctions ourselves. In addition, if the US were to remove itself from the NPT framework, the entire framework would collapse meaning that such a move would be completely self-defeating. Schock and Shearer are amazingly ignorant of the entire NPT framework and are trying to enforce it, by breaking it.
Furthermore, no one thinks that Iran will have a nuclear weapon within one year. The absolute earliest is three years with most thinking it would take until 2015 or later. And that is to produce one weapon. One.