45 ordspråk av Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincione
The South Korean disclosure will deflect attention from North Korea and Iran where it belongs,
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The war in Iraq was supposed to be part of the solution to these regimes, but instead ... it has seriously handcuffed the US in dealing with Iran.
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They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.
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They seem to be in a nuclear game of chicken and both cars are right smack in the middle of the road and heading towards each other in full speed. We don't know what is going to happen, we have to wait for somebody to swerve.
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This administration is forced to follow this route because of the failures of Iraq.
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This could be part of his domestic political calculations. The more he postures as standing up to a US positioning itself for war, the more he consolidates his power.
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This is the triumph of power politics over non-proliferation.
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Up until recently, I dismissed talk of military strikes against Iran as posturing or left-wing conspiracy theories. But I recently changed my mind after friends close to the White House and the Pentagon told me that some people in government have already decided the military option was the only one and there was active military planning.
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We don't know what to make of these reports coming out from the White House yesterday,
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We exaggerated the threat. We worst-cased it and then acted as if that worst case was the most likely case.
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We found nothing. There are no large stockpiles of weapons. There hasn't actually been a find of a single weapon, a single weapons agent, nothing like the programs that the administration believe existed.
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We looked at the intelligence assessment process, and we've come to the conclusion that it is broken, ... American Morning.
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We recommend the formation of a senior blue ribbon commission to examine this in an independent, nonpartisan way and make recommendations for how to insulate intelligence assessors from political pressures,
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We recommend the formation of a senior blue ribbon commission to examine this in an independent, nonpartisan way and make recommendations for how to insulate intelligence assessors from political pressures.
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You no longer heard comments about tyrants and pygmies. It may seem to be a small matter, but it's very important diplomatically.
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