Tuesday, January 26, 2010

War game simulation of Iran and its nuclear program.

http://tinyurl.com/ydz9klg
Who loses the Iran game By David Ignatius
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.How will the confrontation over Iran's nuclear program evolve during the next year? If a simulation game played at Harvard last week is any guide, the situation won't look pretty: Iran will be closer to having the bomb, and America will fail to obtain tough U.N. sanctions; diplomatic relations with Russia, China and Europe will be strained; and Israel will be threatening unilateral military action.
My scorecard had Team Iran as the winner and Team America as the loser. The U.S. team -- unable to stop the Iranian nuclear program and unwilling to go to war -- concluded the game by embracing a strategy of containment and deterrence. The Iranian team wound up with Russia and China as its diplomatic protectors. And the Israeli team ended in a sharp break with Washington...****The U.S. is reconciled to a nuclear Iran and is primarily concerned with forcing Israel to accept this. Obama's undertakings to prevent a nuclear Iran are clearly vacuous and his only conflict will be with Israel.To an objective observer, it is only a question about whether Israel can succeed in attacking Iran. The better alternative, unfortunately eschewed by Obama, was(is) to destabilize the Iranian regime by supporting dissidents and aiming for regime change.****

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