Despite international pressure, Iran appears to be continuing its march toward getting a nuclear bomb. But Washington can contain and mitigate the consequences of Tehran's nuclear defiance, keeping an abhorrent outcome from becoming a catastrophic one.
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Cold War is gone
The old world order is gone, so is the Cold War. Missle Defense is impractical - unless we are talking of new challengers coming from the East.
the question marks are everywhere
One agrees that the cancelation of a missile-defense network in Europe is not a sign of weakness. Rather it does show a certain maturity that looks beyond the rhetoric of ideology. As a scholar, President Obama would be someone quite familiar with the rhetorics of ideology and the politics of imagination that it entails. He would also be someone aware of the merits as well as the pitfalls of such discursive creations.
One also hopes that leaderships elsewhere too show a better comprehension of the discursive creations and of ground realities that get altered by them (creations).
The idea of a missile-defence network is not something that has anything amiss with it. It is the rhetoric that goes with it - the stated logic too forms a part of this rhetoric - that has particular implications in the stated needs. This then leaves question marks everywhere - including the issue of rogue states as well as "hollow states" ( a new term that goes for states that are functional but whose basis for claims to a state as well as democracy is seriously challenged and already compromised by the global uncivil society).
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