by Leon Hadar (source: Asia Times)
Sunday, January 27, 2008
“Ding-dong, the witch is dead,” cheerlead the proponents of the Conventional Wisdom (CW) in the Beltway’s reality-based community these days – the “witch” being President Buscheney’s plan to bomb Iran, which was supposed to be the next chapter in the neo-conservative narrative.
Unfortunately, this CWers’ (pronounced se-wers) don’t-worry-be-happy spinning is based not on reality but on a lot of wishful thinking masquerading as a larger-than-life Realpolitik axiom, that is, the realist “surge” in Washington is working!
The Folly of Attacking Iran
Join Stephen Kinzer, longtime New York Times correspondent and author of the book All the Shah’s Men, as he travels across the nation to make the case for real diplomacy with Iran. The tour coincides with a new publication of his book with a new foreword, the “Folly of Attacking Iran.”