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The next peace and false bells on Iran
Asia Times By Kaveh L Afrasiabi Sept 08 As the November United States presidential elections draw near, the issue of the stalemate in United States-Iran relations looms large, given the continuing Iran nuclear standoff, the stated commitment of both presidential hopefuls, Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama, to disallow Iran from “going nuclear”, and the spin by some pundits in the US and Europe that American voters should cast their votes for the candidate who can best handle the “unavoidable war with Iran”…………………………argument that Iran is two or more years away from getting its first bomb is deeply flawed. It is like saying that Japan or Brazil are six months or so away from building a nuclear bomb, simply because they have the fissile material and technological capability. W……………………………………………..the next chapter in US-Iran relations need not be written in blood and much good can come about by focusing on “the next peace” instead of the next war, even though peace is not half as appealing as war to some in the US corporate media…………………while there are no straight answers to the host of tough issues that bedevil US-Iran relations, but the necessity of avoiding another ruinous war in the troubled Middle East warrants a dramatic shifting of attention to “the next peace”.

This can be done by exploring areas of (potential) agreement and shared interests and telescoping those to the fundamental question of how to recast US policy toward Iran in such a way that will replace the existing hostilities with sustainable peace. T

Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs

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September 30, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | weapons and war