[piasa]

Especially noteworthy is a report on U.S. policy toward Iran that Gates co-authored in July of 2004 with Zbigniew Brzezinski, a onetime national security advisor to Jimmy Carter and, more recently, a foreign policy advisor to John Kerry’s presidential campaign.
Entitled Iran: Time for a New Approach, the report reads like a study in self-contradiction. Conceding that Iran has used “Iraqi instability for its own political gain,” the report concludes, “Iran nevertheless could play a potentially significant role in promoting a stable, pluralistic government in Baghdad.” Noting that “Iranian foreign policy remains captive of the regime’s official enshrinement of anti-American and anti-Israeli ideology,” the authors nonetheless attribute strained U.S.-Iranian relations to the Bush administration’s decision to include Iran in the “Axis of Evil,” lamenting that this “undercut several months of tacit cooperation between Washington and Tehran.” ------------- "Blood Sacrifice" By Jacob Laksin FrontPageMagazine.com | November 9, 2006 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25400

[Cindy]

Thanks for the ping, Piasa.

If this article is correct in post no. 1, Gates statement is outrageous and that is an understatement.

Thanks for the reminder on Iran.

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A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html