tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20537576.post2715012848596033632..comments2023-11-03T04:37:43.106-07:00Comments on Security Dilemmas: The Manama Dialogue: The US and the Regional Balance of Power; Remarks by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (US)Seth Weinbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02120373717676117647noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20537576.post-82902651545555242982009-08-22T04:07:11.942-07:002009-08-22T04:07:11.942-07:00Nice blog. I a also ardent player of WOW GOLD. I l...Nice blog. I a also ardent player of WOW GOLD. I love this game. Nice posting about wow gold. ThanksWow Goldhttp://www.randyrun.frnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20537576.post-21459853193721506792007-12-12T21:42:00.000-08:002007-12-12T21:42:00.000-08:00Thanks for sharing this Uncle Seth. Great Stuff.Thanks for sharing this Uncle Seth. Great Stuff.GrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760252542953109449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20537576.post-5776952850390735322007-12-11T17:59:00.000-08:002007-12-11T17:59:00.000-08:00Many thanks for a very informative article. I note...Many thanks for a very informative article. I note that Gates stated that the U.S. would not make a deal with Iran. Hmmm...<BR/><BR/>Iran is a made-up crisis. It is a crisis because Tel Aviv and Washington treat it as a crisis and threaten to use “all options” to resolve it. The voluntary use of nuclear weapons within the Earth’s biosphere is the ultimate crime against humanity. When nuclear powers threaten to use “all options,” a crisis exists, by definition. End that threat and you end the crisis.<BR/><BR/>Of course, the problems in US/Israeli relations with Iran would not end. There are all sorts of perfectly real problems:<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>1) The US and Iran both want to dominate the Persian Gulf. <BR/>2)The US wants to maximize its control over sources of oil.<BR/>3)The US wants the dollar to be the official currency for the global oil market; Iran prefers the Euro.<BR/>4)Many powerful Israeli and U.S. politicians (though by no means all the thinkers in either country) want Israel to continue to be the unchallenged (and nuclear) superpower of the Mideast; Iran does not.<BR/>5)The Administration apparently wants to retain complete control over Iraq; Iran wants to see the U.S. depart quickly, leaving Iran comfortably cosy with its long-time Shi’ite allies, who are now running the Iraqi government.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>But problems are not crises. Problems are the normal issues of life that require measured, thoughtful attention, mutual willingness to listen, and—almost certainly—genuine efforts to reach creative compromise.</B> Crises may require all of this but have an unplanned immediacy that gives them a very different and far more dangerous short-term nature. The two need to be distinguished. Global political affairs are fully dangerous enough as it is. <B>Pretending that a problem is a crisis is not just an amateurish mistake…it’s irresponsible.</B><BR/><BR/>So...I'd be very interested in your take on Gates' remark that the U.S. will not make a deal with Iran.William deB. Millshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07103937881679464836noreply@blogger.com