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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view.

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Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran.

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Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating.

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No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

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Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.

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Most Pakistani politics is conducted within a narrow spectrum. Politicians spend much time debating the best ways to fight India, or take Kashmir, or dominate Afghanistan, or punish the United States for its real and imagined sins.

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Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

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During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war.

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During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners.

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In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 4th, 1951

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