Thursday, February 5, 2009

An Obama A-Team for Iran

Davos' David Ignatius, in the WaPo, here
"...The two former national security advisers talked hopefully about engaging Tehran. But they are hardly of the gee-whiz school of foreign policy. Brzezinski advocated a military coup in 1978 to check the Muslim revolution; Carter rejected his advice. Scowcroft tilted toward Iraq until Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait; he then became the chief strategist of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Both men start from a realist's appreciation of Iranian power, but both believe that the Iranian challenge is best addressed by diplomacy..."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

To put up Brzezinski and Scocroft, both too old for the job, is Ignatius trick to sell Dennis Ross in the last sentence of the comment.

With Ross any negotiations with Iran are doomed to fail.