Local Politics My Two Cents on Iranian Nuclear Ambitions By David J. Aland [20 January 2006] “All politics is local.” proclaimed Tip O’Niell. While that is certainly an instructive point of view, I’m not entirely sure that I fully believe it. After all, that would suggest that all political activity is merely a competition between competing parochialisms, a sort of “Dueling NIMBYs”, and something far less than the writings of our Founders indicate they had in mind. Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and many others saw the political process as a collaborative event, in which shared goals and visions were critically...