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Saturday, July 24, 2004

Lawrence Kaplan on Iran

Lawrence F. Kaplan has an article in TNR about the Iran policies of Kerry team and the Bush administation. Kaplan notices that the Republican position is actually split between two opposing policies: the hawkish stance of the neocons in the Defence Department, who seem to favour a more aggressive posture, and a dovish perspective from the realists in the State Department. The latter outlook is for greater engagement with Iran, and is shared by the Kerry team. As Kaplan points out, any meaningful engagement with Iran is becoming increasingly untenable, given its nuclear ambitions and relationship with terrorism. The United States needs to get tough with Iran. Although I am not advocating a military invasion of Iran, a degree of regime change is necessary, and a conciliatory attitude of appeasement is not going to work.

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