America and Iran;Cloud computing 美伊问题;云计算 A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama s Diplomacy withIran, by Trita Parsi. 《孤注一掷:奥巴马的对伊政策》;特里塔帕塞著; With dark rumours swirling of an attack on Iran snuclear programme, this new book by Trita Parsi iswell-timed. The founder of the National IranianAmerican Council in Washington, DC, detailsAmerican diplomacy with the Islamic Republicunder Barack Obama. His analysis of the grim stalemate that has characterised relationsbetween the Great Satan and the mullahs since 1979 is both absorbing and frustrating. It is atale of missed opportunities, obduracy and short-sightedness, all which are pushing the MiddleEast towards greater instability. 特里塔帕塞新作的面世,伴随着针对伊朗核计划的漫天谣言,来的正是时候。作者曾创立了位于华盛顿特区的伊朗裔美国人全国理事会,在本书中,他详细阐述了奥巴马领导下的美国政府对伊斯兰共和国的外交路线。自1979年起,大魔头和毛拉之间的关系一直深陷僵局,作者对这一严峻状态的分析既引人入胜又令人沮丧,书中讲述了中东是如何因为错失良机、顽固执拗、目光短浅等缺点而一步步陷入更大的动荡之中。 Under George Bush, America s relationship with Iran festered. The two powers collaboratedoccasionally in Afghanistan, but with America driven by the premise that we don t speakto evil, detente was a distant possibility. America saw negotiations not as a tool ofdiplomacy but as a reward to be granted only to those states that had proved they weredeserving of them. Iran, grouped with North Korea and Iraq as part of the axis of evil, wasnot. |