Wise Words on Iran and Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, from James Baker on CNN this week
Palestinenote / Palestinenote
23-Feb-2010

Former Secretary of State James Baker was interviewed February 21st
on CNN by Fareed Zakaria.  The full transcript is available here
Some gems from the interview:

Baker on Obama's Iran policy
thus far: 
"I think it's too soon to say everything has failed. I
don't -- I think you keep doing what you're doing. In other words, I
think what you need to do is keep pushing for stronger sanctions and
keep talking to or being ready to talk to the Iranian leadership, if
they're willing to talk.  Those things -- and support the reformers in
the streets. Those three things. They're not mutually exclusive. It's
exactly what we did for 40 years with the Soviet Union.  We talked to
them about nuclear -- we negotiated arms control agreements. We
supported the dissidents in the Soviet Union. We worked hard on
Soviet-Jewish emigres to get them the right to leave. We met with
dissidents when we would go over there as -- as Secretary of State.  And
so there's no reason why we can't do all three of those things and
continue to do them."

Baker on using military force against Iran:  "Iran is a huge
force for instability, not just in the region, but in the world
generally, and if they acquire a nuclear weapon, it could set off a
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