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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/opinion/14friedman.html
jerryking>rockets<< — that can control Lebanon and threaten Israel should it think of striking Tehran, to its ability to strengthen Hamas in Gaza and block any U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace.
“Simply put,” noted Mr. Yaari, “Tehran has created a situation in which anyone who wants to attack its atomic facilities will have to take into account that this will lead to bitter fighting” on the Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi and Persian Gulf fronts. That is a sophisticated strategy of deterrence...Alas, the right question for the next president isn’t whether we talk or don’t talk. It’s whether we have leverage or don’t have leverage.
When you have leverage, talk. When you don’t have leverage, get some — by creating economic, diplomatic or military >>incentives [structures]<< and pressures that the other side finds too tempting or frightening to ignore. ]]>Lebanon Iran U.S.foreign_policy Tom_Friedman Hezbollah deterrence Middle_East Mideast_Peace Cold_War leverage ruthlessness influence Iraq Persian_Gulf multiple_stressors grand_strategy incentives nuclear rockets incentive_structures Palestinianshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c94fc12a1e4d/