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29 Oct 07
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He said that now "the debate [over Iran] is secretly over and the people who are against military action are now preparing to make the case that we can live with an Iranian bomb".
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He occasionally asked a question as I made the case but he was truly poker faced."
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He is the most eminent of a clutch of uncompromisingly hawkish aides assembled by Mr Giuliani. They include Daniel Pipes, who opposes a Palestinian state and believes America should "inspire fear, not affection", and Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official who has argued that Condoleezza Rice’s diplomacy is "dangerous" and signals American "weakness" to Teheran.
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But Mr Podhoretz’s 77 years and his position as a pre-eminent conservative foreign policy intellectual means he can not only think the unthinkable but say the unsayable.
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Mr Giuliani, the former New York mayor whom he briefs daily appears to have embraced at least the logic of his hard-line views.
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nuclear power, we will prevent them or we will set them back five or 10 years".
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he was certain that bombing raids could be successful.
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"None of the alternatives to military action - negotiations, sanctions, provoking an internal insurrection - can possibly work,"
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Israeli interests are concerned, and it is after all Israel that
dictates US policy for the most part.
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