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March 2012 Archives
President Obama traveled South Korea this weekend to attend the Nuclear Security Summit, where North Korea's nuclear weapons program and recent threat to conduct a missile test under the guise of launching a satellite were atop the agenda. With the standoff over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program also coming to a head, how do you rate the Obama administration's efforts to revitalize the global nonproliferation agenda? How important was the "New Start" treaty with Russia, and did it have the desired effect of breathing new life into the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty specifically, and nuclear nonproliferation initiatives more generally? If North Korea does conduct a missile test soon after the summit, or tests another nuclear weapon, how big of a blow will it strike to the nonproliferation agenda? Can the administration take credit for increasing Iran's international isolation with subsequent rounds of sanctions? What if Iran gets the bomb anyway?
3 responses: Eric Farnsworth, James Jay Carafano, Michael Brenner
A U.S. soldier, acting alone, allegedly went home to home opening fire on Afghan civilians, killing at least 16 on Sunday. The military is investigating the incident. What should the military do in the short-term to mitigate this problem? Is this a failure in the chain of command? Should someone be fired/resign?
8 responses: Michael Brenner, Paul Sullivan, Michael Brenner, Col. W. Patrick Lang, Michael F. Scheuer, Col. W. Patrick Lang, Wayne White, Michael Brenner
President Obama told the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC on Sunday that while containment of a nuclear Iran was not an option, there was "already too much loose talk of war." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have reportedly told senior U.S. officials that if Israel decides to strike Iran militarily, it will do so without warning Washington--in an attempt to protect the United States from blowback. Should Israel strike Iran's nuclear facilities? Will sanctions ultimately succeed in convincing Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions? If not, should the U.S. launch its own military strike on Iran - either unilaterally or with a coalition of countries that could include the Jewish state?
11 responses: Michael Brenner, Paul Sullivan, Col. W. Patrick Lang, Michael Brenner, Michael F. Scheuer, Col. W. Patrick Lang, Joseph J. Collins, James Jay Carafano, Wayne White, Paul R. Pillar, Michael Brenner
