The View of "Administration Hard Liners"
The subject is Iran and Washington has been thrown into its usual tizzy over the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report that the Iranians are not working and playing well with others.
The subject is Iran and Washington has been thrown into its usual tizzy over the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report that the Iranians are not working and playing well with others. Karen DeYong writes in a Washington Post article,
The IAEA report comes amid tension within the administration over how aggressively to respond to the continued Iranian defiance on a range of issues, including its nuclear program and support for international terrorism and violent insurgents in Iraq. Vice President Cheney's office and hard-liners on the National Security Council staff think the current carrot-and-stick strategy leans too far in the direction of carrots.
I must have missed the carrots in among all those sticks as Bush readies a third Security Council resolution.
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