Niall Ferguson cheers on war between Israel and Iran

“Hi folks, this used to be Israel. Or, was it Iran? I forgot. Oh well. Where’s my paycheque?”

Or, more like an Israeli attack on Iran. The money quote:

War is an evil. But sometimes a preventive war can be a lesser evil than a policy of appeasement. The people who don’t yet know that are the ones still in denial about what a nuclear-armed Iran would end up costing us all. 

It feels like the