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UN Inspectors to Syria
Many comparisons are being made between the Syrian and Iraqi circumstances regarding CW use. Some background on the Iraqi case. The UN first became involved in Iraqi CW use allegations during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980’s. A small team … Continue reading
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Bashir CW Action will Unify Security Council – And NATO Will Bomb-And Iran?
NBC’s Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski (who has been working in the Pentagon longer than many of its current inhabitants have been alive) reported yesterday: “The Syrian military is prepared to use chemical weapons against its own people and is awaiting … Continue reading
Is Syria Playing Chicken with Chemical Weapons?
President Obama has publicly warned that any use by Syria of chemical weapons would have consequences. Reportedly US intelligence shows that CW related materials have been moved. It is unclear from the outside whether this indicates Syria has taken steps … Continue reading
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Quiet on the Iran Front? Not for long…
After a lot of sound and fury in the press about military options concerning the Iran nuclear program (largely around the visit to Washington by Netanyahu for the annual AIPAC meeting and discussion with President Obama)…things have gone rather quiet. … Continue reading
Obama and Netanyahu
In the speech President Obama gave to AIPAC on 4 March, he made a few obvious points. First and foremost, he seemed to be rather defensively arguing that no President was more supportive of Israel than he. Clearly one major … Continue reading
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Under Pressure–IAEA, Iran and the Rest of the World
IAEA Inspectors will be in a difficult position as the international community will inevitably look to them for “truth” about Iran. This is similar to Iraq case, but the comparisons with Iraq are otherwise limited. The data on the Iran … Continue reading
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Iran Nuclear Intel Dwarfs the Data on Iraq
Comparisons between the intelligence assessments of nuclear weapons activities on the part of Saddam’s Iraq and today’s Iran are misleading. Certainly the pre-war intelligence assessments concerning Saddam’s nuclear weapons programs were wildly wrong. However, they were produced from astonishingly small … Continue reading
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Closing UK Embassy in Tehran–There is a cost…
Closing the respective embassies in Tehran and London may have been inevitable for political reasons, but there is a cost to this action. Two governments that already have a poor understanding of one another will now have even less contact … Continue reading
The Real Change in Iraq
President Obama is doing the equivalent of the “Moonwalk” out of Iraq. There have been negotiations concerning the potential retention of US forces, but without success. It is not clear either side would welcome success. Maliki has no use for … Continue reading