Face the facts on Iran agreement
By Ivan Sascha Sheehan
Posted on TheHill on February 19, 2014
Since the P5+1 Joint Plan of Action on Iran’s Nuclear Program was signed in Geneva in November, the White House has encountered two difficult truths about the Iranian regime.
Rouhani’s manipulation of U.S. negotiators ended Tehran’s isolation and secured time in return for empty promises that furthered the regime’s nuclear objectives.
The Hidden Cost Of The Iranian Nuclear Deal
By Michael Doran
Posted on Brookings on November 24, 2013
One's evaluation of the nuclear deal depends on how one understands the broader context of US-Iranian relations. There are potential pathways ahead that might not be all that bad. But I am pessimistic. I see the deal as a deceptively pleasant way station on the long and bloody road that is the American retreat from the Middle East.
Use US soft power to free the Ashraf Seven
By Ramesh Sepehrrad
Posted on The Hill on November 01, 2013
In Iraq, the buck stops with the Prime Minister, Nouri Al-Maliki, more so than any other country. He is the Commander in Chief, the acting Minister of Defense, the acting Minister of Interior, the acting Minister of National Security and the Head of Intelligence.
Iran Outwits the U.S.
By Micah D. Halpern
Posted on huffingtonpost on October 20, 2013
Iran is out maneuvering and out witting the United States and the West at almost every twist and turn.
The reason is simple -- and sad.
Extricating the President
By Allan Gerson
Posted on UPI.COM on September 10, 2013
After all the convulsing it comes down to this: whether to extricate President Obama from his own folly in dealing with Syria.
The President is in a predicament of his own creation. Had he enforced the red-line he drew, had he authorized some small military strike, whatever turmoil might have followed from Congress or others would have been short-lived. Now the entire international spotlight rests on him. And the stakes are enormously higher, because if he does now what he might have easily done before - just a shot across the bow - we will be seen as toothless. And, if Congress fails to authorize action, paralyzing the President, U.S. national security will indeed suffer as our red-lines will become meaningless, leaving us to be perceived as a paper tiger or a faint-hearted "humanitarian", or both.
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