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...seems very clear that the Iranians really don’t want to negotiate, and that some sort of different tactic is necessary. Because the Iranians have diffused their nuclear enrichment operations in numerous different sites, a military solution seems unlikely. However the United States can, and should, do a far better job of encouraging domestic opposition to the mullah’s theocracy. There is substantial opposition to the Islamic republic, especially among the younger generation that constitutes the majority of the Iranian population. Despite the popular conception of Iran as a nation of frothing America-haters, Iranian youth...
...Indian policy through their example of growth led by massive quantities of investment and booming low-cost exports. "The threat of China is doing some good," O'Neill said. He pointed out that India has been changing its domestic rules in a bid to attract more foreign investment, a tactic which he labels "a direct product of being envious of how much investment China is getting." The one caveat: while he expects the Chinese economy to grow by a factor of 20 between now and 2050, India will be 50 times bigger - but will still lose...
...political will and air strikes from U.S. warplanes that ended the wars in Bosnia in 1995 and in Kosovo four years later. The European powers placed their hopes for peacemaking in the Balkans on diplomacy and the promise of commercial benefits if the protagonists ceased fighting. That tactic failed (just as it appears to have failed in dissuading Iran from going nuclear). Sometimes only war brings peace. Sometimes, of course, it does nothing of the kind - witness Iraq. As Mandelbaum reminded me last week, the fact that the U.S. has some of the characteristics of a government does not mean...
...back to the wall, Ahmedinajad resorted to the tactic favored by cornered politicians everywhere: distract attention from yourself by pointing to a bogeyman. In Iran (and other Middle Eastern countries) the most convenient Bad Guys are (a) Israel and (b) the West. Hence Ahmedinajad's much-publicized remarks about wanting to wipe Israel off the map. But by all accounts that was not enough to draw off his domestic rivals...
...always used the former, because it is short and fierce; copy editors routinely changed it to the latter as more grammatically correct. Terrorism is a tactic wrapped in ideology; terror is an experience, and you can't declare war on one of those. But only now as I listened to the President answer questions did I realize how important a distinction this is, and how success or failure lies in the meaning of those words, and the difference in those wars...