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…ns that had eluded us since Oslo. Nor was I confident that, having been unable to mount a military strike of our own on Iran, Obama’s “bigger, stronger kid” in the schoolyard would take military action. I did trust him to do all he could to use diplomacy to constrain Iran’s effor...

…nt retreat from the region, following clumsy attempts at nation building, has destabilized and discouraged its allies. Iran is supporting militias in Iraq, Syria and Yemen whose stated purpose is to eradicate Israel. That threat may create what has been a previously unthinkable...

…ns that had eluded us since Oslo. Nor was I confident that, having been unable to mount a military strike of our own on Iran, Obama’s “bigger, stronger kid” in the schoolyard would take military action. I did trust him to do all he could to use diplomacy to constrain Iran’s effor...

/ BARAK / 131 whether that would even be possible to strike before the Iranians entered their “zone of immunity” — the point at which the amount of damage we could do to their nuclear program would be too negligible to be worth the operational, political and diplomatic risks fro...

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…ecially the syndrome of feeling slighted by the West. Dubai is pragmatic. It makes money doing business with Israel and Iran, countries shunned by other Arab states. The city's finessing of simultaneous friendships with Washington and Tehran is as deft as it is precarious. Dubai'...

… Muslim Brotherhood would still have come to power in Egypt o Syria would still be mired in a bloody civil War o And Iran would still be pursuing nuclear capabilities and a hegemonic role in the Gulf And ladies and gentlemen, It is Iran's pursuit of nuclear capabilities whic...

…n’t just inaccurate, I said. Especially when his rhetoric was in full flight, and he compared the prospect of a nuclear Iran to a new “Holocaust,” it struck me as a betrayal of the core tenet of Zionism: an state in which Jews were in control of their own destiny. “We are in that...

… for example, for Pakistan to pursue a nuclear weapons program in the 1970s, just as it makes little economic sense for Iran to do so today. Clearly, both Pakistan and Iran made major policy decisions based on political-military priorities rather than economic calculations. As f...

…hile the most authentic opponents in the region of these Sunni al-Qaedists - the governments of Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Iran - have found themselves overthrown (in the case of Iraq and Libya), subverted with U.S. support (in the case of Syria), or sanctioned and threatened as par...

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…that is only because the major oil players were not prepared to pretend that there was agreement on output quotas. With Iran chairing the meeting, an annoyed Venezuela in attendance and an embattled Libya looking on, it was much harder to get the group to put aside their differen...

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dropping bombs on Pakistan. Or an air strike on Iran. Even if Israel did that, it would be with U.S. aid and approval. Also, there’ s a scenario floating around that Joe Biden will drop out of the race in deference to Hillary as Obama’ s vice-presidential running mate replacing B...

…al and deception. In this and other ways complexity reinforces uncertainty.1 The large number of actors involved in the Iranian situation would make it very difficult to discern clearly what is happening once the shooting starts, and the scene would remain very fluid as long as t...