Last month, writing in this space, I argued that we often neglect to weigh the costs of inactionwhen discussing the pros and cons of military intervention. Writing this week in the New Republic, Leon Wieseltier spells those costs out plainly: 

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I would prefer that our leaders were more candid and simply said that they can live with the murder of innocents and the destruction of democratic aspirations and the regional influence of the mullah and the madman in Tehran because immediate and effective action against these circumstances would contradict their conception of American power.