{"id":2868,"date":"2008-01-27T16:55:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T21:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2008-01-27T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T21:58:36","slug":"leon-hadar-forget-about-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2868","title":{"rendered":"Leon Hadar: Forget about war with Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Leon Hadar<\/em> (source: Asia Times<\/a>)
\nSunday, January 27, 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

[Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Folly of Attacking Iran<\/font><\/p>\n

Join Stephen Kinzer, longtime New York Times correspondent and author of the book All the Shah\u2019s Men<\/em>, 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

February-March Tour stops<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Kg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}