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KRAUTHAMMER: "I don't think there is much of a chance of targeting the regime to abandon its nukes. I think what we are looking at, at least in the short run, is, number one, the ICBM that can hit the U.S. Is a red line. The president has said the administration has established very clearly, we will not allow that. We are going to hit it one way or another. That is understood. The question is, can we get, with Chinese pressure, a freeze of the program. We are not going to get an abolition of the program. I think that is really unlikely even with Chinese pressure. What can we get a freeze, which is sort of an intermediate step, come on, because what he means is, we are not on a burning fuse. Right now, we are. We are a year or two or three away from the red line being crossed even on the east coast east coast -- and even on the east coast being in the crosshairs of a nuke. Can we freeze the program so there are no marked missile tests of the advanced kind and no more nuclear tests to try to militarize the weapons and put it on a warhead? That's, I think, is the medium range, short-range objective. If it can be achieved, I think it is something we should want to get paid and then you go from the longer-range stage of abolition of the program. Right now, that is not reachable, but I think it would be worth it to stop diffuse from burning."