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obsidianwings.blogs.com - 8/18/2008
Foreign Policy ADD
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by hilzoy This post from Undiplomatic provides a quick illustration of why Foreign Policy ADD is a Very Bad Thing. It's called "Russia - Georgia: The Big Winner": "Iran. 1. The neocons are so distracted by the new meme of Russia as Nazi Germany, they’ve forgotten all about their old meme of Iran as Nazi Germany. 2. The Bush Administration, attempting to save face as a result of ...

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The Reality-Based Community — ... Hilzoy and I agree : the U.S. has to decide between giving Iran a hard time and giving Russia a hard time. We disagree about which one to give a hard time to. Russia is much scarier, and Iran is much more likely to become friendly as a result of its internal political development, a likelihood which goes down if the U.S. makes Iran out enemy. The folks running Russia are going to keep running it, with damned little evidence of any substantial bloc of Russian voters who would like it to be run otherwise. In the short run, Iran can help a lot or hurt a lot in both Iraq and ...

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