In an article in The International Herald Tribune on October 13, 2005, “former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski observes, ‘America’s ability to cope with nuclear nonproliferation has…suffered [as a result of the invasion of Iraq]. The contrast between the attack on the militarily weak Iraq and America’s forbearance of the nuclear-armed North Korea has strengthened the convictions of the Iranians that their security can only be enhanced by nuclear weapons.’ ”
– Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 101