{"id":954,"date":"2009-09-28T23:26:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T03:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2009-09-29T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T16:29:30","slug":"cohens-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/954\/cohens-clarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen&#8217;s Clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal carried a superb op-ed this morning by Johns Hopkins professor Eliot Cohen on the growing dangers of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen, who runs the university&#8217;s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, is the author of &#8220;Supreme Command,&#8221; one of the seminal books on political leadership during wartime. He also served as a special advisor to Condoleeza Rice at the State Department during President Bush&#8217;s second term (though, from an outsider&#8217;s perspective, it seems as if Secretary Rice didn&#8217;t take nearly enough of his advice).<\/p>\n<p>The whole piece is wonderful for its clarity, but the money quote is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pressure, be it gentle or severe, will not erase [the Iranian] nuclear program. The choices are now what they ever were: an American or an Israeli strike, which would probably cause a substantial war, or living in a world with Iranian nuclear weapons, which may also result in war, perhaps nuclear, over a longer period of time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it in its entirety <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204518504574420641457091318.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal carried a superb op-ed this morning by Johns Hopkins professor Eliot Cohen on the growing dangers of Iran. Cohen, who runs the university&#8217;s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, is the author of &#8220;Supreme Command,&#8221; one of the seminal books on political leadership during wartime. He also served as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,202,130,191],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-condoleeza-rice","tag-eliot-cohen","tag-iran","tag-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}