Posted in Culture, Iraq, Mark T. Kimmitt, Military, Stephen Peter Rosen on Jun 12th, 2009 1 Comment »
From Stephen Peter Rosen Understanding the reasons why Americans are more willing to wage wars than Europeans is of historical interest, but not only. It has been asserted, for example, that Americans were willing to wage war against Saddam Hussein because of the manipulation of the American political system by a lobby that was more [...]
Posted in Chuck Freilich, Iran, Israel, Nuclear, Stephen Peter Rosen on May 11th, 2009 5 Comments »
From Stephen Peter Rosen The prospect of being hanged, we are told, wonderfully concentrates the mind, but on what? The prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon now concentrates our attention on the possibility of Israeli preventive military action or on American sanctions, both of which might prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. These are important [...]
Posted in Gal Luft, Geopolitics, Jacqueline Newmyer, Maps, Stephen Peter Rosen on Sep 18th, 2008 Comments Off
The MESH roundtable on the theme of “The First 100 Days” continues. MESH members have been asked these questions: What priorities should the next administration set for immediate attention in the Middle East? What should it put (or leave) on the back burner? Is there anything a new president should do or say right out [...]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Announcements, Barry Rubin, Bruce Jentleson, David Schenker, J. Scott Carpenter, Jacqueline Newmyer, Michael Rubin, Robert Satloff, Stephen Peter Rosen, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Aug 3rd, 2008 25 Comments »
From Stephen Peter Rosen Peter Rodman, a member of MESH, passed away on Saturday. I met Peter in 1980 in Santa Monica. I was very junior, he had already worked at the highest levels in government, and was just back from a long trip. But he immediately joined into a serious conversation and worked to [...]
Posted in Iran, Jacqueline Newmyer, Philip Carl Salzman, Stephen Peter Rosen on Jul 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Jacqueline Newmyer and Stephen Peter Rosen Seymour Hersh has recently alleged that the United States government is engaged in clandestine activities to destabilize Iran through appeals to ethnic and religious minorities. We hope that he is mistaken, not because we oppose regime change in Iran but because the history of Iran teaches that governments [...]
Posted in Chuck Freilich, Iran, Israel, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Mark T. Clark, Martin Kramer, Nuclear, Robert O. Freedman, Stephen Peter Rosen on Jun 26th, 2008 7 Comments »
Earlier this month, Israel sent more than 100 warplanes on military maneuvers across the Eastern Mediterranean. An unnamed U.S. official described the exercise as practice toward honing the skills for a long-range strike. The assumption is that the maneuvers signal an Israeli willingness and capability to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, if all other measures to [...]
Posted in Arab Gulf, Chuck Freilich, Iran, Israel, Jacqueline Newmyer, Michael Mandelbaum, Nuclear, Stephen Peter Rosen, Terrorism on Apr 17th, 2008 3 Comments »
From Jacqueline Newmyer and Stephen Peter Rosen The extension of American nuclear guarantees in the Middle East has been posed as a question of American guarantees to Israel. This is understandable given the intense hostility to Israel expressed by the Iranian regime. However, there is a broader objective that may be served by U.S. nuclear [...]
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