Joshua Muravchik. “Opposing View: Iranian Bomb ‘Intolerable'”. USA Today. November 20, 2007: “Only strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities can forestall these terrible scenarios. This would not require a ‘declaration of war,’ an antiquated concept that has not been employed since World War II and rarely before. We would send no troops, conquer no land. Rather, we would act in pre-emptive self-defense.”