פרסומים אחרונים במדור "חדשות"

http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/pdfs/iranrpt.pdf

nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit

http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact

“Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign. We’ve declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah—we’ve got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism.”

For more than a year, France, Germany, Britain, and other countries in the European Union have seen preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon as a race against time and against the Bush Administration.

The Europeans have been urging the Bush Administration to join in these negotiations. The Administration has refused to do so.

President Bush, who after 9/11 famously depicted Iran as a member of the “axis of evil,” is now publicly emphasizing the need for diplomacy to run its course. “We don’t have much leverage with the Iranians right now,” the President said at a news conference late last year. “Diplomacy must be the first choice, and always the first choice of an administration trying to solve an issue of . . . nuclear armament. And we’ll continue to press on diplomacy.”

"...Their attitude has been to use the carrot and the stick but all we see so far is the carrot.”

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjohnsonLB.ht...

The voters had rejected Goldwater's aggressive policies against communism and Johnson won a landslide victory. What the American public did not know was that Johnson was waiting until the election was over before carrying out the policies that had been advocated by his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater