Bill Kristol - Take on Iran!

[ I'm sure you're all familiar with this fascist 'think tank.' -x]

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iran-20040720.htm

 July 20, 2004

MEMORANDUM TO: OPINION LEADERS

FROM: WILLIAM KRISTOL

SUBJECT: CFR Report on Iran

One has to hand it to the Council on Foreign Relations. Just as Iran has spent
the last several months reconfirming why it was a charter member of the "axis of
evil," a CFR taskforce, led by former National Security Advisor Zbigniew
Brzezinski and former DCI Robert Gates, has concluded that the time is now ripe
for a policy of "engagement" with Iran. This, in spite of the fact that:

    * Iran continues to tell the International Atomic Energy Agency - along with
the British, Germans and French - to stuff it when it comes to Tehran's nuclear
weapons program.
    * Iranian officials, caught red-handed in New York photographing likely
terrorist-targets, were expelled from the United States.
    * Iranian intelligence agents were caught in Iraq building car bombs and are
now assisting Iraqi radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's efforts to rebuild his militia.
    * Iran's hard-line clerics and revolutionary guards have eliminated
virtually all remaining reformist elements from the government over the past year.
    * Iran apparently has had and continues to have a working relationship with
bin Laden's al Qaeda. Indeed, if the 9-11 commission report is accurate, Tehran
might well have been involved in both the 1996 Khobar Towers attack and in 9-11.
Furthermore, Iran today harbors senior al-Qaeda leaders.
    * And, today, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reports that the head of
Israeli military intelligence research has warned the Knesset defense committee
that Iran might well give non-conventional weapons, such as chemical weapons, to
Hizballah, the Iranian-backed terrorist organization.

We do need a coherent, serious policy toward Iran; one of containment, pressure,
accountability and, ultimately, regime change. If the CFR report helps force a
real debate on Iran policy and encourages the Bush Administration not simply to
kick the can down the road until after election day, it will have
(inadvertently) performed a service.

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