Taxation policy is then a carrot and stick approach to push things along.

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But where nonmilitary means were concerned, Bush and his people were lagging behind a loss of faith in the carrot and stick approach that had been appearing within the American foreign policy establishment even before the publication of the new NIE.

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Now as one who has long since rejected the faith in diplomacy and sanctions, I never thought I would live to see the day when most members of the foreign policy establishment would come to admit that the carrot and stick approach would not and could not succeed in preventing Iran from getting the bomb.

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