The Wages of Smart Power

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On some level this shouldn’t surprise anyone: the terrorist president of Iran has appointed a terrorist defense minister. But it is the final nail in the coffin of Obama’s appeal for fist unclenching. The Ahmadinejad government begins with the absence of domestic legitimacy. Now it is flouting the authority of interpol, the international police agency. Is there anyone who thinks the Iranians will keep their commitments on a nuclear proliferation treaty?

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