Posted on 03/07/2010 7:55:01 PM PST by Ooh-Ah
...ZAKARIA: Don't you have the beginning of a very robust containment strategy, though, and you would be the one actually who would probably be principally charged with the military operationalization of this. You have the moderate -- the Gulf states, the Sunni states, Egypt, Israel, the major European countries, perhaps even Russia, all arrayed, you know, along this common interest that Iran not -- not become a nuclear power.
Wouldn't it be possible to contain it?
PETRAEUS: ...you have to ask a country that is most directly concerned about this, and that would be Israel. And, at the end of the day, what we might want with a slightly detached perspective than the other western countries. What the Gulf states and others might be willing to accept --
And by -- by the way, there is no uniform or universal acceptance of what you had just laid out. In fact, it's quite the contrary in many of the countries, and there's quite a --
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ZAKARIA: What does that mean? They want -- they want the United States to strike?
PETRAEUS: Well, it's interesting. I think there -- there is almost a slight degree of bipolarity there at times. On the one hand, there are countries that would like to see a strike, us or perhaps Israel, even. And then there's the worry that someone will strike, and then there's also the worry that someone will not strike. And, again, reconciling that is -- is one of the challenges of operating in the region right now.
Our job right now is to ensure that we're prepared for any contingencies, ...And that's indeed what we're endeavoring to do with our partners who, by the way, find that President Ahmadinejad is often our best recruiting officer,...
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A Look at Iran
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FAREED ZAKARIA GPS
Interview With General Petraeus; Interview With Ayad Allawi
Aired March 7, 2010 - 10:00 ET
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