Flynt Leverett
Flynt Leverett
Flynt Leverettis a former senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a professor at the Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs. From March 2002 to March 2003, he served as the senior director for Middle East affairs on the National Security Council...
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We can define a target set that we want to take out in the name of delaying Iran's nuclear development, and we're perfectly capable of taking out that target set.
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Since the second term started, I think they've been moving toward an undeclared policy of regime change, as long as it doesn't require too much effort by the United States. It's regime change on the cheap.
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No one at a senior level was willing to push Iran on diplomacy. Was there at least a chance that we could have gotten something going? Yes, there was a chance.
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It's not a good path we are on right now. You have a situation now in which one or two things will happen, and both of them are bad.
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It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap.
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There is now more energy behind the diplomacy than was usually the case in the first term.
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For the first term of his presidency, the Bush administration had a long list of complaints about Syria that got longer after Iraq.