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unavoidable but may not be disastrous given our deterrent capacity, the bigger risk is not from Iran but from a world in which Iran's rivals across the Persian Gulf, such as Saudi Arabia, to others in the region and emerging powers elsewhere around the world enter a nuclear arms race. Such a race would both ge

tating for the = A country with nearly 8 percent unemployment preferred to give the president a second chance rather than Mitt Romney a first one. The Republican Party today needs to have a real heart-to-heart with itself. EFTA00700212 The has lost two presidential elections in a row because it forced its cand

, Vice President Joe Biden, in 2009 and took up a post as senior director on the National Security Staff, with responsibilities for Iran, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf. Back in 2001, Talwar argued in Foreign Affairs, that the Bush administration should "abandon the containment strategy [toward Iran] it inherited a

onnected crowd of Hollywood stars and media types gathered at the Brentwood, California, home of Arianna Huffington -- then best known for leaving the Republican Party more than a decade ago, before running as an independent candidate in California's 2003 gubernatorial recall race. What eventually emerged from the

d Bolton. In an editorial, the Washington Post (7/8, 14.2M) argues that "since it has initiated a confrontation that has sharply raised tensions in the Persian Gulf, you'd think the Trump administration would have anticipated the Iranian response and gamed out its next moves." However, "Trump's response to the

e." In addition, there is "money to be made, because a majority of detained migrants are being held in camps run by corporations with close ties to the Republican Party." Krugman concludes that "cruelty and corruption are intertwined in Trump administration policy. Every betrayal of American principles also seems,

epublic's ability to sell oil overseas. Iran responded by threatening to militarily shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow shipping lane out of the Persian Gulf through which 20 percent of the world's oil trade passes. On January 8, three days before the attack on Roshan, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta

res the existential threat that looms within. Reactionary elements lurk in many democracies. Ask the Dutch, the British, the Austrians, the French. The Republican Party has flirted with several in this election cycle. But in Israel the threat is especially acute. And the concern comes not only from its most persist

in. Arizona Sen. John McCain, o=ce Obama's GOP challenger for the presidency, blasted the speech for not including any reference to the incid=nt in the Persian Gulf. "Ten American sailors have been taken into custody in Iran," he said in a statement.= "But President Obama completely omitted this latest example o

n in control. Mr. Trump's securing the Republican nomination would change all that..C2* Whatever problems one might be tempted to lay at the feet of the Republican Party, Donald Trump is in a different and mor= destructive category. In these pages in July 1980, Daniel Patrick Moynihan,=the Democratic senator from New

that it accused of smuggling Iranian fuel. The seizure is the latest in a series of attacks involving ships and tankers, mostly in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf, that have sent Page 16538 EFTA00046049 tensions soaring between the United States and Iran. (Liz Sly) 2. The United States is sending about 50

ters. "I think the story is that 187 Republicans voted in favor of Trump and Page 16534 EFTA00046045 four voted against. There is great unity in the Republican Party." -- But it is significant that one of the four Republicans who broke ranks, Will Hurd from Texas, is the House GOP's lone African American. "Ther

d of smuggling EFTA00046075 Iranian fuel. The seizure is the latest in a series of attacks involving ships and tankers, mostly in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf, that have sent tensions soaring between the United States and Iran. (Liz _Sjy) 2. The United States is sending about 500 troops to Saudi Arabia

20 years on the bench and was appointed by then-Gov. Rick Perry to the criminal appeals court, told the Austin American-Statesman: "Every day with the Republican Party seemed worse than the day before. Trump speaks about brown people like me as lesser beings. It's cliche to say, but the Republican Party left me."

d in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. (Morteza Akhoondi/AP) THE NEW WORLD ORDER: -- The U.S. and Europe have sharply different plans for patrols in the Persian Gulf. Adam Taylor and James McAuley report: "As tensions rise, the exact mandate remains uncertain, with two separate and possibly competing plans — one

d chief executive of Acronym, a politically active nonprofit supporting Democrats." SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ: Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, who left the Republican Party on July 4 to become an independent after concluding that Trump committed impeachable offenses, said Volker and Morrison didn't help the GOP's case