Okay, Rumsfeld is out, Cheney is in his cave, here’s what you do:
Put the worst secretary of State since Colin Powell on a plane to Tehran. Have her tell them that we will leave Iraq and shut up about their enrichment of uranium to 3.6% for their electricity program as long as they remain subject to the NPT and IAEA safeguards and promise not to obliterate the minority Sunni Arabs of Iraq when we leave.
Since the Ayatollah Khamenei offered everything for nothing in 2003, I think it’s a pretty safe bet that he’ll take it.
Otherwise, the US could just leave them alone since Iran is really none of our business, but that’s just me.
Comments welcome at Stress.
Scott Horton is editorial director of Antiwar.com, director of the Libertarian Institute and host of the Scott Horton Show
from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism and the 2024 book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, and editor of The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019
and Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He’s conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna Horton. He is a fan of, but no relation to the lawyer from Harper’s
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