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Moreover , the hatred between the Sunni and Shiite gangs that are engaged in this bloodshed is n't going to dissipate anytime soon no matter what the United States does or does not do . Thus far , despite his ideological compunction , Khamenei has pressed the state toward some degree of restraint . How would a corporate CEO behave if earnings shortfalls received wide publicity , but performance above expected earnings was ignored ? First , direct contacts between the United States and Iran . These regular interruptions to my slumber caused me even less discomfort than I had anticipated ; and when I finally arose for the day , it was seven o'clock , and the sun had attained many degrees above the line of my horizon . Yet , for various reasons , Europe became less dominant as America asserted its leadership . Sanctions risk an escalation of tension between North Korea and the rest of the world . And therefore , unlike the case of North Korea , which has already obtained fissile material and is producing more , there 's time , purely from the point of view of the technical development of the threat , to let diplomacy play out in the case of Iran . Nor was there any commentary about the death penalty itself – although surely the discomfort with the graphic images stemmed in part from discomfort with the brute fact that a state was ending the life of a man , even a man as hateful and criminal as Saddam . I had imagined that the habitual endurance of the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the earth was the cause , or nearly so , of the pain attending animal existence at a distance above the surface . We , by contrast , are weighted down by important ongoing and unresolved conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan , a runaway North Korean nuclear program , as I mentioned earlier , our need to adjust cautiously and prudently to China 's political and military rise , and above all , to the sprouting of post-9 / 11 versions of al Qaeda . He vetoed sixty-six bills driven by his desire to establish fiscal discipline and despite large opposition majorities in Congress , only had twelve of his vetoes overridden . Unlike Lincoln and Roosevelt , who had a full four months to prepare between their election in November and inauguration on March 4 the following year , Mr. Ford was notified by President Nixon that he was resigning with only one day 's notice . Second , and again unlike North Korea , the Iranian government has exhibited at least a smidgen of sensitivity to international opinion and to the possibility of further isolation and punishment if it persists , and acceptance and trade if it stops ; i.e ., to diplomatic carrots and sticks . Research at the IMF , of all places , as well as by independent scholars documents a number of puzzles and paradoxes . There ’ s a remarkable difference between the degree to which Americans and Europeans believe that they live in a land of opportunity . And as you 'll see when I describe them , I do n't believe we've done that yet . Liebman : The benefit of having personal retirement accounts in the plan is that if we ’ re going to spread the burden across generations and start putting some extra revenue into the system now , we need to have a way to save that money so that it doesn ’ t get diverted to other purposes , as the current Social Security surplus often does . Despite repeated calls by the United States on the new Iraqi government to disband the militias , nothing has been done .