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t Take Into Account Dueling Irans Rob Sobhani Article 4. Los Angeles Times Will Iran crack? Meghan L. O'Sullivan Article 5. The Diplomat Are Obama's Iran Sanctions A Ruse? Robert Dreyfuss Article 6. Foreign Policy Think Again: India's Rise Sumit Ganguly Arucic I. The Wall Street Journal T

kers to conclude that India will easily emerge as one of the world's great powers in the 21st century. In 2010 while visiting India, U.S. President Barack Obama said, "India is not just a rising power; India has already risen." And just a few weeks ago, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called India a "linchpi

ns that demand a stop to enrichment. Since 2009, President Obama has opposed, deflected, and tried to weaken sanc

ry. In 2010 while visiting India, U.S. President Barack Obama said, "India is not just a rising power; In

the kind of brinkmanship it has not engaged in since the Cold War," wrote Eisenstadt, in a paper entitled, "Not By Sanctions Alone." And uber-hawks William Kristol and Jamie Fly of the Foreign Policy Institute, a neoconservative think-tank, writing in the hawkish Weekly Standard, exclaimed, "It's time for Con

ts like Romney's with any particular candidate or party. In fact, such views command reflexive support across the political spectrum. So word that Barack Obama has been flashing his own copy of The World America Made comes as no surprise. Whether the president has actually read it is beside the point. Mer

the president has actually read it is beside the point. Merely having the book in his possession inoculates him against the charge of "declinism." Obama, the New York Times reports, has "brandished Mr. Kagan's analysis in arguing that the nation's power has waxed rather than waned." Let there be no

port across the political spectrum. So word that Barack Obama has been flashing his own copy of The Worl

cklessness. Convinced that the demise of the Soviet Union had freed the United States from all constraints, hawkish analysts (among them Kagan and William Kristol) urged policymakers to put American military muscle to work. Here are Kagan and Kristol in 2002, promoting preventive war against Iraq: Whether or

vement — "boycotts, divestment and sanctions" — as a club to pressure Israel into making more concessions. I strongly disagree. Kerry and President Obama are trying to build Israelis a secure off-ramp from the highway they're hurtling down in the West Bank that only ends in some really bad places for

more concessions. I strongly disagree. Kerry and President Obama are trying to build Israelis a secure off-ramp f

a vote at this time on the measure. That AIPAC press release prompted a rare rebuke from one of the group's biggest allies on the political right. William Kristol issued a statement from his organization, the Emergency Committee for Israel—a group that has also fought for the Kirk-Menendez bill—warning, "It w