Our Imaginary Foe
Mini Teaser: Finding monsters under the bed and bogeymen in the closet. Why exaggerating the Iranian threat is bad for U.S. foreign policy.
Geoffrey Kemp is the director of Regional Strategic Programs at The Nixon Center. He was the special assistant to the president for the Middle East during the first Reagan administration.
1See Norman Podhoretz, "Stopping Iran: Why the Case for Military Action Still Stands," Commentary, February 2008.
2Thomas P. M. Barnett, "The Man Between War and Peace," Esquire, March 11, 2008.
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