Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincioneis the President of the Ploughshares Fund, a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear weapons policy and conflict resolution. He was appointed to the presidency by the Ploughshares board of directors on March 5, 2008. He is the author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weaponsand Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threatsand the co-author of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security ...
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chapter dead doomed policies route talking
I think the Chapter 7 route is dead on arrival. The US can keep talking about it, but our own policies have doomed it.
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As always, the different factions (in Washington) will use it to justify their existing positions. The vice president and his hawks will use it to show that the Iranian program can't be stopped through diplomatic means and, therefore, their preferred option of a military strike is the only option.
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They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.
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We looked at the intelligence assessment process, and we've come to the conclusion that it is broken, ... American Morning.
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We don't know what to make of these reports coming out from the White House yesterday,
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We found nothing. There are no large stockpiles of weapons. There hasn't actually been a find of a single weapon, a single weapons agent, nothing like the programs that the administration believe existed.
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The real danger is cherry-picking the data to support a preconceived idea and then connecting the dots to form a faulty picture. This is what happened in Iraq.