A Curate’s Egg (Good in Parts)

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Published on March 28th, 2013 | by Peter Jenkins

A Curate’s Egg (Good in Parts)

by Peter Jenkins

Last week, while visiting Israel and Jordan, President Barak Obama publicly emphasised that there is still time to resolve the nuclear dispute without resorting to force and that this is his preference. For peaceniks everywhere, those were encouraging words.

But, advertently or not, the President’s words also revealed two of the most perplexing aspects of his administration’s Iran policy: their insistence on making unique demands of Iran, and their reluctance to give weight to US intelligence findings.

Let me try first to explain what I mean by “unique demands”.