Law and Society
Middle EastBy caitlyn
5 months ago
 Last Sunday Fareed Zakaria, the host of GPS on CNN, opened his program with an analysis of the Iranian nuclear crisis. He started by saying: "A moment of truth is arriving on the Iran Issue. Western countries will have to face up to the fact that there are only really two choices with Iran: one, a military strike, effectively preventing the country from continuing to expand its nuclear capacity; or, secondly, learning to live with such a capacity." Up to this point Zakaria was 100% correct in his assessment. The current talks with the Iranian regime have produced no concrete results and based on comments by the Iranian government they never will. I can understand why President Obama wants to give diplomacy every reasonable chance at success. If nothing else it provides the U.S., and perhaps by extension Israel, some diplomatic cover with the rest of the West when the inevitable war with Iran comes.
Zakaria went on to describe some of the consequences of a strike by either the U.S. or Israel on Iran. Once again he was spot on: |
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy halthouse1
9 months ago
The North Korean Nuclear Threat: Did We Start The Damn Diplomatic Resolution of the Problem Yet?
We have heard the speculation that the United States led by the Obama Administration MAY place North Korea back onto the list of state sponsors of terror.
We have heard noise regarding U.N. sanctions that MAY be placed on North Korea which will ultimately have no effect on the current dictator (or most likely his son either) as the well being of the ordinary citizenry of this country is really of no great concern to the leadership.
We have heard some rhetoric out of Washington concerning the POTENTIAL of holding what they hope would be substantive talks with North Korean leaders in the hope of bringing them to their senses about giving up the nuclear arsenal in exchange for something that may be more meaningful to them.
Now I don't necessarily have the solution for this problem that has the POTENTIAL |
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