Over at Mosaic Magazine, former Bush aide Michael Doran claims that the Obama administration has had a secret strategy to engage Iran from the time it took office. Heâs right, but he neglected to mention that George W. Bush and his national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, adopted the same strategy from the same source in November 2006, after the Republicans got crushed in the 2006 congressional elections. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld got a pink slip, Vice President Dick Cheney got benched, and ârealistâ Robert Gatesâthe co-chairman of the 2004 Council on Foreign Relations task force that advocated a deal with Iranâtook over at Defense. Michael Doran reports all of this, all, that is, except Gatesâ central role in the plan. That would place a good deal of the blame at Bushâs doorstep.
...the 2006 congressional report was a carbon copy of the Council on Foreign Relations report of 2004, written under the supervision of Gates and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carterâs national security advisor. |