Today we're revisiting the Iran: No Big Deal argument. First up, my column at WPR makes the case for thinking about Iran in terms of the behavior of other nuclear powers: The problem with nukes is that there are strong material and normative pressures against...
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Last Sunday I found myself in a twitter brawl after declaring that a nuclear armed Iran, while hardly ideal, would have no significant effect on the Middle East balance of.
David Rothkopf thinks that Obama may order an attack on Iran before the election: But in the end, as dangerous as an attack might be militarily and politically, if the.
Hey now, it's not as if knowing whether China has nuclear weapons is at all relevant to the practice of American foreign policy: I do view China as a potential military threat to the United States... we already have superiority in terms of our military...
Who could have known that Michael Oren wasn't an entirely reliable source regarding Israel's military plans? After all, he totally predicted that Israel would strike Iran within eighteen months of.
It's kind of a minor point, but if a Democratic Senator made a similar error (especially in the context of arguing for military disengagement) I suspect that we'd hear no.
Ok, so let's assume that Mubarak takes the easy way out and heads for healthier climes. What explains the difference between the failure of the Green Revolution and the success of the Egyptian? Some potential hypotheses: Ahmadinejad, whether or not (or by how much) he...
One of the more interesting cables revealed by Wikileaks involved a meeting between Russian and US diplomats that touched on the question of Iran-North Korea collaboration. One of the key.
It's not as if there are a lot of good arguments for war against Iran, but Broder has constructed what has to be the worst. Duss does the necessary demolition.
There's obviously much of interest in the Wikileaks Iraq release; for the moment the Iran stuff holds the bulk of my attention: But the field reports disclosed by WikiLeaks, which were never intended to be made public, underscore the seriousness with which Iran’s role has...
I'm not terribly interested in the project of calling Jeffrey Goldberg out as a propagandist; he's Jeffrey Goldberg, so of course he's a propagandist. As I suggested yesterday, I don't.
When you're on Iran's death-row, which has seemingly been convinced to upgrade their standards of decency to the level exercised by my home state of Washington, at least in terms.