Barry Rubin
Although
By making containment sound too easy, this underestimation may serve to rationalize the Obama administration's lack of serious diplomatic effort to stop
First is the premise that
The authors do point out that if
Israel, of course, cannot and will not appease
In such an environment, merely issuing warnings to
The second flawed assumption Lindsay and Takeyh make is that
Lindsay and Takeyh's excessive faith in
A third misleading assumption made by Lindsay and Takeyh is that the threat posed by an
Consider the effect of millions of Muslims concluding that mighty
Moreover, Israel has no leverage to defeat revolutionary Islamist groups outside the
The second tremendous strategic threat will be that
A nuclear
Finally, Lindsay and Takeyh mistakenly assume that
The authors conclude that
One fundamental problem with the plan for containment as put forward by the authors and the current U.S. government is that it is in basic conflict with the Obama administration's strategy to date. The plan is to contain
Successfully containing
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