Watching America has barely been able to keep up with all of the stories over the last week from the Middle East on the American Intelligence Report on Iranian Nukes (or not)
The world looks on in wonder as the U.S. continues to perfect the art of removing the rug from under itself while it still stands on it.
The Iranian press is full of “We told you so”. Those closer to home, and with a little more detachment are floating such comments as
the Bush administration’s publication and embrace of what could soon prove one of the stupidest intelligence assessments in history”
-as in a poetically entitled article, “Making the Ayatollahs Laugh” from the Ottawa Citizen.
So here, for your amusement are a couple of cartoons, and for your convenience links to foreign press articles about the Intelligence Assessment of Iranian nuclear capability.
U.S. Intelligence Agencies Play Safe on Iranian WMD (from France)
The Third World War – Cancelled (from Germany)
Americans’ Attitude to Intelligence Report Reminiscent of Auschwitz (from Israel)
and, from the horse’s mouth, so to speak
U.S. NEI Report Proves Correctness of Iran’s Resistance (from Iran)
But a report is just a report.
The REAL story, perhaps, is the one you haven’t heard so much of in the U.S. yet: Iran has stopped selling its oil in US dollars. More on that at Watching America, too.
Robin Koerner is a British-born citizen of the USA, who currently serves as Academic Dean of the John Locke Institute. He holds graduate degrees in both Physics and the Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). He is also the founder of WatchingAmerica.com, an organization of over 100 volunteers that translates and posts in English views about the USA from all over the world.
Robin may be best known for having coined the term “Blue Republican” to refer to liberals and independents who joined the GOP to support Ron Paul’s bid for the presidency in 2012 (and, in so doing, launching the largest coalition that existed for that candidate).
Robin’s current work as a trainer and a consultant, and his book If You Can Keep It , focus on overcoming distrust and bridging ideological division to improve politics and lives. His current project, Humilitarian, promotes humility and civility as a basis for improved political discourse and outcomes.