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Peter Galbraith: US needs to get tough with Pakistan
2008-01-09 08:08:00 Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center, Peter Galbraith, recently wrote an interesting op-ed in the Boston Globe, arguing that Pakistan ?should be treated like the national security problem it has become.? He suggests that the U.S. should insist that Pakistan?s elected leaders have total control over all of the country?s national security programs, make clear that the U.S. does not believe A.Q. Khan acted alone, insist that Khan and his records are made available to the IAEA, and sponsor a Security Council resolution appointing a UN investigator to look into the assassination of Benazir... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
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Peter Galbraith Videos Discussing Iran
2008-01-07 06:09:00 The Center?s Senior Diplomatic Fellow, Peter Galbraith, recently spoke at a briefing session on U.S. policy toward Iran, hosted by the World Policy Institute. Below are the videos of Galbraith?s portion of the briefing. [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
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Tomgram: Peter Galbraith, The Iranian Conundrum
2007-09-19 07:27:00 by Tom Engelhardt Be careful what you wish for — that might be the catch phrase for American relations with Iran since the CIA helped overthrow the elected government of that country in 1953 and installed the young Shah in power. Much of our present world — and many of our present problems in the Middle East and Central Asia — stem from that particular act of imperial hubris. The Shah's Iran was then regarded by successive American administrations not just as a potential regional power, but as our regional bulwark, our imperial outpost. The U.S. helped bulk up the Shah's military, as well as his fearsome secret police, and, under President Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program, actually started Iran down the nuclear road which today leaves some administration figures threatening bloody murder, even while former Centcom commander John Abizaid claims that an Iranian bomb would not be the end of the universe. ("There are ways to live with a nuclear Iran..... |
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