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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/opinion/03mon4.html
Washington Examining the Military Option to Stop Iran
[New York Times] Carol Giacomo - Inside Washington's policy circles these days - in studies, commentaries, meetings, Congressional hearings and conferences - reasonable people from both parties are seriously examining the so-called military option to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program, along with new diplomatic initiatives. A report by the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center, founded by four former senators - Republicans Robert Dole and Howard Baker and Democrats Tom Daschle and George Mitchell, explores such strategies as blockading Iran's gasoline imports, but it also says that "a military strike is a feasible option and must remain a last resort." Ashton Carter, a senior Pentagon official in the Clinton administration, wrote a paper for the Center for a New American Security that asserts military action "is an element of any true option."