Supreme wiggle room
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 6:58AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

I just glance over the posts on the page and the attached comments and I realize you can basically write almost any possibility right now on Iran-US-Israel: plenty of people saying "when and not if" for almost every scenario out there.

That is "crisis" to most people, but it's also opportunity. That much in play from so many angles means there's significant wiggle room.

And that's when deals actually get done.

But don't expect most positions to un-harden. The closer you get to actual possibilities, the more strongly everyone argues for and against, so watch for signals galore from all sides, because all sides are deeply divided concerning the "wisdom" of any deal.

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