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Analysts See Iran Confronting Obama On Nukes, Moscow Assailing Him On European Missile Shield; Defense Outlays Would Be Prime Economic Aid

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Monday, January 19th, 2009

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As Barack Obama enters the White House, he will inherit multiple problems that bedeviled President Bush during his years in office, including an Iran obstinately refusing to abandon its nuclear program and a Russia bent upon intimidating the United States into abandoning the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) program, analysts said. The incoming president will have no breathing space, but instead will be confronted immediately with myriad pressing issues. The American Enterprise Institute think tank forum included AEI faculty members…

Army

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Army

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