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Iran: WWJMD? Same as Obama will do
The Swampby Mark Silva What would John McCain do? Certaiinly not what he joked about on the campaign trail more than two years ago: "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.'' But the revelation, corroborated by European allies, that Iran has secretly......Tags: The Beach Boys, United Nations, United States, South Carolina, John McCain
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Obama: Iranian agreement 'constructive'
The Swampby Mark Silva Following direct talks with Iran today about its nuclear facilities, President Barack Obama called Tehran's acceptance of international inspection of the uranium enrichment facility that it is building "a constructive beginning.'' Yet Obama,...Tags: European Union, United Nations, United States, White House, Nuclear Policy
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U.S., Iran at the table: Nuclear talks
The Swampby Paul Richter and Christi Parsons GENEVA -- Iranian officials sat down with diplomats of six great powers at a secluded villa on the outskirts of Geneva today to try to relieve growing international pressure over Tehran's nuclear program. In......Tags: Defense Equipment, Economic Policy, Politics, Washington (U.S. state), European Union
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McManus: Gridlock, Tehran-style
With the United States locked in confrontation with Iran, was it good or bad for diplomacy that "Argo," a movie about U.S. spies getting the best of the Iranians, won this year's Academy Award for best picture? Depends on whom you ask. To Iran's...
Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, United Nations, Television Networks, Barack Obama
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Ben Affleck's mission accomplished in 'Argo' ★★★ 1/2
The propulsive hostage thriller "Argo," the third feature directed by Ben Affleck, just plain works. It's heartening to encounter a film, based on fact but happy to include all sorts of exciting fictions to amp up the suspense, whose entertainment...
Tags: John Chambers, Ben Affleck, Victor Garber, Ruhollah Khomeini, Ron Howard
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U.N. Peacekeepers Wrestle With Limitations
There is no "big idea" easier to pay homage to in principle, or harder to make work in practice, than the peacekeeping role of the United Nations. This is painfully clear in a new memoir by Kofi Annan, its former secretary-general. The latest failure...Tags: Rwanda, International Organizations, United Nations, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wars and Interventions
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McManus: Confronting Iran -- again
Here's a prediction I don't think I'll have to apologize for at the end of the year: Some time in the coming months, probably this spring, there will be another crisis over Iran's nuclear program. It's become an annual event on the diplomatic calendar:...
Tags: Chuck Hagel, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama, Israel
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McManus: The nuclear countdown in Iran
Not long ago, an astute reader noted that it has been nearly two years since I wrote in a column that "most experts now estimate that Iran needs about 18 months to complete a nuclear device and a missile to carry it." His point — that those...Tags: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ehud Barak, Groundhog Day, The Washington Post, Emergency Incidents
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Deterring Iran A Fantasy Foreign Policy
There are few foreign-policy positions more silly than the assertion without context that "deterrence works." It is like saying air power works. Well, it worked for Kosovo; it didn't work over North Vietnam. The idea that some military technique "works"...Tags: Suicide, Al-Qaeda, Religion and Belief, Iran, Islam
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'Argo' review: Deserves Oscar nominations, not wins
*** (out of four) It’s not easy to make a reality-based, political, action-comedy that stretches from Tinseltown to Tehran and covers everything from Hollywood satire to public hangings. In his first directorial effort not set in Boston, Ben...
Tags: Alan Arkin, John Chambers, Central Intelligence Agency, John Goodman, Ben Affleck
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U.S.-Iran War Game Reveals Real Danger
The Hartford CourantPerhaps it was the "fog of simulation." But the scariest aspect of a U.S.-Iran war game staged this week was the way each side miscalculated the other's responses — and moved toward war even as the players thought they were choosing restrained...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Manufacturing and Engineering, Barack Obama, Israel, Defense Equipment
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Meghan Daum: What's with the 'hiker hate'?
The story of Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd, the American hikers who in July 2009 crossed the border — inadvertently, all evidence suggests — from Iraqi Kurdistan into Iran and were imprisoned for espionage, is back in the...Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, File Sharing, University of California, Berkeley, Trips and Vacations, Los Angeles Times
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Aug 31, 2012
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Aug 30, 2012
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Oct 11, 2012
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Sep 21, 2012
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