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Iran s pursuit of nuclear weapons coupled with a diplomatic insurance policy should negotiations fail. the president may also need a plan b in afghanistan. it s unlikely president hamid karzai will sign a long-term security agreement, and after it was revealed that former u.s. defense secretary robert gates book claims mr. obama, quote, can t stand karzai, the afghan president has now authorized the release of 72 taliban fighters from bagram prison. we were in touch through our amnesty in kabul, and others in afghanistan on this matter. republicans have hit the president for not having substantive talks with karzai since last summer. i do think it s concerning that the president has not engaged personally more often on an issue of such magnitude. as for the last time the president spoke to commander dunford, the commander on the ground i think i have answered the question. thank you. ....
Collapse of the pro-american position in the middle east, all of our allies are scared to death, the saudis, the israelis, the good guys who are diminishing in number, and syria and in lebanon, is the fact that obama was not able to negotiate such an agreement with iraq when he should have and could have, has left a vacuum into which iran has come in, shiite extremism, and the sunni extremism of the al qaeda elements. al qaeda now controls more territory than ever in its history, and it isn t in afghanistan at the edge of the world. it s right in the middle, in mespotame yeah. there s a saying around here, you stand behind what you say. around here you don t make excuses. you make commitments. and when you can t live up to them, you own up, and make it right. so people think the kind of accountability ....
They want economic relief and they re willing to trade nuclear concessions, or are they doing it as a game, getting sanctions relief while their program moves forward. frankly, israel could act regardless of what is happening plit clael here. sure, it could. it doesn t want to. it s a much bigger undertaking to attack iran, for israel to do it alone, than some people might think. and i don t think the obama administration wants to be in a position of seeing israel essentially going to war with iran. that could force the obama administration s hand as well. it certainly would force the obama administration if the israelis attack. the u.s. would have to jump in as well. quickly, i promised other hot spots. you look around, charles. iraq, afghanistan, it does not look like this deal is coming together with karzai. it is not a pretty foreign policy picture currently for the president. no, i think in afghanistan it s falling apart. that s an agreement for a strategic partnership a ....
Ugly turn in syria. not with u.s. troops. gains made by u.s. forces in iraq are disappearing. to al qaeda-linked fighters. the relationship with afghanistan s shaky government is at a low point now, and the political version of a family feud is brewing between president obama and some of his fellow democrats over new sanctions on iran. a majority of the democratic-controlled senate wants them. the president, who hopes to continue talking with iran about its nuclear program, does not, and has threatened to veto. chief white house correspondent ed henry on the political battle about a real-life possible war. as iran s supreme leader again described the united states as satan, democrats led by senate foreign relations chairman bob menendez are gaining new steam in their effort to pressure president obama to accept tough new sanctions against iran, which led a white house official to take the unusual step of going on the record in the huffington post to charge some fellow democrats want ....