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ppily ever after." If Americans just keep the faith, they can do likewise. This is the stuff of stump speeches. And it's hardly coincidental that Mitt Romney has enlisted Kagan as a "special adviser." For when it comes to American preeminence, Romney himself is very much a man of faith, his run for the p
stump speeches. And it's hardly coincidental that Mitt Romney has enlisted Kagan as a "special adviser." For when it comes to American preeminence, Romney himself is very much a man of faith, his run for the presidency anchored, he claims, in a passionate belief that "this century must be an American
he Shah's decision to accept a United Nations' "assessment mission" to decide the fate of Bahrain had been one of his "greatest treasons". One of Khomeini's first acts after seizing power in 1979 was to create the so-called Bahrain Liberation Army. The group tried to invade Bahrain with a few boats bu
ut I'm not sure it would make a difference. For one thing, the Israelis don't know who will be president. And regardless of whether it is Obama or Romney, Barak said that Israelis could not take even an explicit, public US promise to attack on faith, irrespective of who the president is... He made cl
o mention that President Obama doesn't even know if he'll still be sitting in the Oval Office come spring. And if E FTA_R1_00298522 EFTA01884041 Mitt Romney is elected, history shows that presidents do not undertake dramatic operations in their first year in office unless forced to. So the problem here
onversely, views the world as essentially hostile, and many hardliners argue for a national security policy based on the most atavistic elements of Khomeini's worldview: international institutions and diplomacy are symptoms of an inequitable world, and a farce — self-reliance is the only option. And if
s limp uncertainly toward the nomination of Mitt Romney, a more deadly race is underway in the Middle Eas
in the last years of the shah manifested a striving for local hegemony that transcended the country's strongest alliances with the U.S. and Israel. Khomeini's regime went on to reveal how even messianic ideologies can bow to long-established imperatives and dramatically different security environments.
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