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Ahmadinejad is also a politician with considerable mass appeal. And he is already accusing the United States and Britain of interference. Our strategy should be to make sure that these accusations seem as loony and baseless as possible. Were President Obama to be seen as grandstanding and taking ownership of the protest movement, he would be -helping Ahmadinejad's strategy, not America's.

Zakaria is the host of CNN’s GPS With Fareed Zakaria on Sundays at 1 p.m. ET.

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  • Posted By: Sanescience @ 09/09/2009 2:24:07 AM

    Hehehe, I think you missed the alien overlords that control the actions of industrialized nations.

  • Posted By: rezaA @ 07/16/2009 2:09:32 PM

    economic sanctions does not work on opressive governments if america itself was oppresive for 8 years under bush. in those 8 years america set up torture chambers in guantanamo, baghram, and abu ghraib, remember lakhdar bumeydian? remember sami al-hajj? remember he uigur detainees?

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    Brezenski predicted the decline of communism after russia left afghanistan, he was right on that

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