. . . just needs to get a second term, when he will have the opportunity to trim Israel's stranglehold on policy.

He's already starting to "pivot" toward Asia, which looks like another indication of his unwillingness to let Israel or anyone else drag us into yet another un-winnable and possibly self-destructive war in the region, against yet another Muslim-majority nation. There are only so many aircraft carriers to go around.

AIPAC and the other Israeli advocate groups face uncertain prospects -- by working against Obama they may face increased public hostility and perceived weakness if he wins. But it's by no means certain the Romney, as president, would actually be as impractical and bellicose as his for-the-moment statements on these issues promise.

What we may be witnessing is the often-predicted major divergence of interests between the US and Israel.

Israel wants Iran punished and wounded for its effective support of anti-Israeli groups. A nuclear Iran would severely limit their capacity to harm Iran themselves. They want, indeed -- demand -- that the US do it. But inflicting unknowable damage on the delicate world economy and opening unknowable risks of regional war are not in US interest.

We really don't know, apparently, whether Iran wants deliverable nukes or breakout capability.

But it's clear that, despite statements to the contrary, the US could live with either possibility. Mao once bragged that China could survive a nuclear exchange with the US -- a more credible threat than Iran has ever posed to Israel or anyone else. They and we did nothing. The North Koreans routinely threaten to turn South Korea and Japan into a "sea of fire''-- and our response is -- containment.

lets see...what will the iranians want in "negotiations"?

I think we all know deep down what they want....the question is, will obama give it to them? Before the election he wont, after the election he will try.

Grand bargain or not, israel will destroy iran if they have to. Obama can do what he wants even after the election ....it wont change a thing in terms of how israel defends herself.

The FACT that obama has chosen to put politics ABOVE global security tells you ALLLLLLLLL you need to know about who he is, what he promised in 08 and how far from that he actually is.

There are a number of basic problems with the article. First, the author maintains, without any evidence other than contemporanity, that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapon program under duress from the threat of US invasion. Aside from the fact that the US was so overextended that even a cowboy like Bush could not have contemplated another middle east war at the time, the author ignores the very real probability that Iran's nuclear weapon program was aimed at Iraq as a defensive measure, since we swore to the whole world that Iraq was building a nuclear weapon as well as other WMD's. Once tha Iraqui nuclear threat was gone, thanks to the US invasion, it was with relief, not fear, that Iran felt secure in abandoning theirs.
Next, even though the author acknowledges that all of our intelligence says there is no evidence of a nuclear weapons program and even though the Ayatollah Kahmanie has issued a binding religious Fatwa against one, he then goes on to write as if these facts did not exist and assumes the there is such a program, and that theis nonexistent program must be stopped. Just as the US government does. Are they all living in wonderland?

every serious expert knows it. Only the pro obama media want to deny it. Shame on obama's intel mouthpieces who are bending into pretzels to deny it to help obama's re-election chances...thats a real shame and frankly, disturbingly orwellian.

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don't you think that the politicians want you to be scared because someone lacks foreigh policy? why is foreign policy more important to the people than having their taxes raised or losing more of their freedoms or the price of food and gas? foreign policy is just something to get the voters exicted about so that they can slip one by us. vote for the person and their abilities to lead and all of the other stuff will fall in line. a good leader picks great people for their cabinets that will make them great not just good. mr doodles.

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It helped make the United States into a global economic and naval power through colonialism which extending the reach of american business into Asia thru the Philippines near the Asian continent The U.S. acquired the Philippines as a territory from Spain as a result of the Spanish American war.

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They obviously know that looks matter more than your actual knowledge. Why do you think all of his supporters are a bunch of ignorant "Joes"..

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