An Assessment Jars a Foreign Policy Debate About Iran

An administration that had cited Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons as the rationale for an aggressive foreign policy -- as an attempt to head off World War III, as President Bush himself put it only weeks ago -- now has in its hands a classified document that undercuts much of the foundation for that approach. Full Story »

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by Naomi Isler - Dec. 4, 2007

So, our intelligence is lousy and was being used, nevertheless, to try to get us into another mid East war. So what else is new.

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by Kaizar Campwala - Dec. 4, 2007
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by Roland F. Hirsch - Dec. 4, 2007

This is a well sourced and written article. It explains the situation prior to the release of the latest NIE (though the 2005 findings are left out). Importantly, it does not resort to the blame Bush-Cheney ideology, but rather emphasizes the problems in the intellegence agencies that the new information reveals, problems that are not the fault of either of them. The major shortcoming of the article is that so much space is devoted to the views of Senator Hagel, who is a marginal ... More »

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