"...Obama must keep the offer open - even if it means withstanding pressure from domestic critics who want him to do all he can to punish the regime’s police-state behavior. It will not be easy to ignore that kind of criticism. From a human-rights perspective, there can be no denying the repulsiveness of the crackdown on Iranians peacefully airing their grievances against an ever-more-militarized ruling elite.
Yet Obama has correctly made Iran the centerpiece of his turn toward a realistic foreign policy that seeks to substitute diplomacy for the leveling of threats whenever practical...."
Monday, August 10, 2009
"Obama's chance to avoid a nasty choice between accepting a nuclear Iran & escalation, is to renew his invitation to 'talk'...
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