In Hahvahd Yahd
Jules Crittenden
I thought they’re supposed to be smaht at Hahvahd. Wicked smaht. So how come Graham Allison thinks negotiating with the Iranians is in anyway a viable course of action? He also doesn’t appear to get what is going on over there.
However the war in Iraq ends, it is clear who the biggest winner will be: Iran.
Wrong.
While certainly not its desire or design, the objective consequence of the US military campaign that toppled the Taliban was to eliminate Iran’s major threat from the East: the result of America’s toppling Saddam to eliminate Iran’s major threat from the West. ...
Still wrong.
If Iran is to be prevented from building nuclear bombs without war, the US must now explore negotiating options that are unpalatable but nonetheless better than the options a President will face at the end of the road he is now on.
Wrong again!
A tour de force in thoughtful, yet vapid handwringing, ...
Allison fails to notice that we, the United States, did not simply remove two threats on Iran’s flanks … the Taliban and Saddam Hussein … we replaced them with a greater threat. Us. That’s why Iran is trying so hard to undermine us in both places. Iran is not the dominant power in the region. We are. But we won’t be for long if we follow his advice.
Allison also fails to recognize ...
