Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Simon Serfaty, the CSIS Brzezinski Chair in Geostrategy, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Bush Doesn't Rule Out Military Strike on Iran."
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Simon Serfaty, the CSIS Brzezinski Chair in Geostrategy, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Bush Doesn't Rule Out Military Strike on Iran."
President Bush on Wednesday raised unprompted the possibility of a military strike against Tehran's presumed nuclear weapons ambitions, speaking bullishly on Iran even as he admitted having been unwise to do so previously about Iraq.
Bush's host in two days of meetings at a baroque castle, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, made clear her views on the saber-rattling — however subtle — without directly countering her guest. "I very clearly pin my hopes on diplomatic efforts," Merkel said, reflecting the deeply held European opinion that military action against Iran is nearly unthinkable.
"What we should do from the U.S. standpoint is not ask Merkel to do things she cannot do until the election is behind her," said Simon Serfarty, a global security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
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