Kissinger and Schlesinger's Lame Attacks on Iran Nuclear Assessment
When the summary of the U.S. intelligence community's new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran was released earlier this month, Steven Lee Myers of the New York Times wrote that "Rarely, if ever, has a single intelligence report so completely, so suddenly, and so surprisingly altered a foreign policy debate." The question now is which way the debate will turn. It won't necessarily be won on logic, unless advocates of unconditional negotiations with Iran pound hard -- and relentlessly -- on their views of the assessment.
In early posts I have discussed the positions put forward by the neo-cons, and by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Now so-called foreign policy wise men (a generally used phrase, not MY view) Henry Kissinger and James Schlesinger have weighed in, with arguments that are both inaccurate and embarrassing.
