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...change of tack by the Bush Administration may reflect the mixed results of its efforts to isolate Iran: On the one hand, the U.S. has managed to overcome Russian and Chinese objections to secure two important U.N. Security Council sanctions resolutions turning up the heat on Iran, and it has managed to constrict Iran's access to global capital markets. But despite the pressure, none of these actions has prompted Tehran to change course. And many of the governments on which the U.S. would rely to implement an isolation strategy - friendly Arab leaders and the Europeans - have strongly echoed calls...
...exile," comprised of the exiles and the Kurdish leaders. These exiles would then be installed as a new government once Baghdad fell. My CIA colleagues were aghast. It was as though Defense and the vice president's staff wanted to invite comparison with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when Russian troops deposed the existing government and installed Babrak Karmal, whom they had brought with them from Moscow...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Peter Pace visited Moscow a month ago and tried to convince his Russian counterpart that extending the U.S. system to European bases was intended to counter an expected Iranian threat, and would not weaken Russia's own nuclear deterrent. "The math and geometry is fairly straightforward and fairly basic," he said. "If the Russians were to fire a missile at the United States, the [U.S. interceptor] missile that's in Poland would not be able to catch the missile that was fired from Russia...
...Russians, of course, view the notion of an Iranian missile strike against the U.S. skeptically, and wonder if the system isn't some kind of anti-Russian Trojan horse designed to kill Russian missiles. Obering dismisses that idea. "The Russians have hundreds of ICBMs and they have thousands of warheads," he noted. "We're talking about 10 interceptors, so that's not going to change the strategic balance between the two countries...
...Instead of trying to intimidate its neighbors, Moscow should welcome the chance to work with the U.S. on missile defense, Obering said. "We have a combined interest in stopping this emerging missile threat," he said. "It's not the Russians that we're worried about - it's the Iranian missiles that we're worried about. There's thinking inside the Pentagon that Reagan's "Star Wars" plan so unnerved the Russians that they're still suffering from a Cold War hangover and ultimately might see the light and cooperate. But that's unlikely to happen so long as NATO encroaches...