Don’t Bomb Iran

Respected Washington analysts reject this story as nonsense, but the mainstream media sadly swallowed the explosive “intelligence sources” with pre-Iraq credulity. Some analysts say its a dodgy propaganda campaign aimed at derailing the recent successful diplomacy in disarming North Korea. Jeffrey Lewis at Arms Control Wonk dismissively outlines the unthinking media frenzy and Joe Cirincione at Foreign Policy agrees (extract below). And nobody seems to ask why the US and Israel are not sharing knowledge of alleged secret nuclear facilities with the IAEA as required by various UN Resolutions.

This story is nonsense. The Washington Post story should have been headlined “White House Officials Try to Push North Korea-Syria Connection” This is a political story, not a threat story. The mainstream media seems to have learned nothing from the run-up to war in Iraq.