Hillel Fradkin on "The Greater Middle East"

President-elect Obama faces serious geopolitical challenges in the Middle East, Central, and South Asia—a region best described as the Greater Middle East. The immediate policy objectives of the President-elect—to withdraw our forces from Iraq and to redouble our efforts in Afghanistan — dictate that near-term policy will be sharply focused on two countries: Iran and Pakistan. In Pakistan our clearest objective should be to give as much support as possible to the new government. In Iran, the new administration looks likely to make a renewed effort to negotiate nuclear issues. In the case these negotiations fail — and they probably will — the Obama administration will have to immediately undertake a wide-ranging review of new
strategies to deal with a nuclear Iran.

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