He being the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Excellent piece about the radical history of this man in the past issue of The New Republic. He is a child of the rebellion, a reminder of the extreme ways of the Shah.
What he is not is a threat to the United States. He is playing a game, and we are willing participants. The Bush/Rove machine (well, Bush if Rove gets indicted) will use Iran as a bludgeoning tool on the Democratic Party, and it will work once again.
Iran does not have nor will it have a nuclear weapon in the near future. War with Iran is suicide and will result in the deaths of thousands of Iraqis and American troops in the region. A true leader would speak to the Iranian president face to face. JFK met with Khrushchev. Reagan met with a much friendlier Gorbachev. Great presidents, even good presidents act presidential in these moments.
Bush would rather respond through subordinates.
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