Politics > Politics-USA > Insane McCain re-unites Russia and China and re-ignites Cold War for Israels sake
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29 Apr 2006 07:22:04 AM |
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Insane McCain re-unites Russia and China and re-ignites Cold War for Israels sake |
McCain warns Russia, China on Iran
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060428/pl_nm/nuclear_iran_mccain_dc_1
This article linked from: antiwar.com
(as are many posts seen in this NG)
Reuters Fri Apr 28, 2006
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A leading U.S. senator warned
Russia and China on Friday of damage to their
relationship with the United States if they refused
to go along with sanctions against Iran.
Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona told a
Brussels conference that Iran's nuclear program
posed the greatest security threat to the world
alongside terrorism.
The U.N. Security Council should impose
sanctions including an investment ban, a travel ban
and asset freezes on government leaders and nuclear
scientists, McCain said.
Asked what consequences there would be if Moscow
and Beijing blocked such a move, he told reporters:
"Clearly it's going to affect many areas of
cooperation between our two countries.
"There will be a reaction in the U.S. Congress."
McCain, a potential White House contender in 2008,
said he could not be specific that the areas
affected could include trade.
The world's nuclear watchdog said on Friday Iran
had flouted a U.N. Security Council call to suspend
uranium enrichment and was speeding up its program
instead, spurring Western powers to urge tougher
U.N. action.
President Bush said he wanted peaceful
persuasion to prevail. Iran's president has vowed
to spurn any U.N. resolution to stop its professed
quest for fuel for atomic power stations -- a front
for bomb-making in Western eyes.
McCain said the United States must not rule out
military action against Iran as a last resort,
saying: There's only one thing worse than military
action and that's a nuclear-armed Iran."
McCain did not rule out the possibility of direct
U.S. talks with Tehran or Washington's involvement
in multilateral negotiations with Iran.
He said Bush had made clear he would explore every
possible option and that could include "six-party
talks, four-party talks, two-party talks."
McCain added he was not trying to tell the
administration what to do.
He said that military action would be very
complicated but the United States could not risk a
nuclear Iran exterminating Israel.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060428/pl_nm/nuclear_iran_mccain_dc_1
This article linked from: antiwar.com
(as are many posts seen in this NG)
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
John J. Mearsheimer
University of Chicago - Department of Political Science
Stephen M. Walt
Harvard University - John F. Kennedy School of Government
http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011
( has polemical response from Alan Dershowitz at site )
Edited non-PDF version :
http://www.lrb.co.uk./v28/n06/mear01_.html
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