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Today on All Things Considered: "If Iran did indeed give up its nuclear weapon program in 2003, what caused it? Oh, yes: the United States put over one hundred thousand troops next door."
Now, Ted owes his career to the media saber rattling against Iran during Jimmy Carter's administration. So he's psychologically invested in stupid warmongering with Iran. But let's examine his question.
"What caused it?"
How about the fall of Saddam Hussein, who had actually gone to war with Iran and who was pretending to have stockpiles of "weapons of mass destruction"? Wouldn't that be a pretty sensible reason for putting your own risky, expensive program on ice?
Yes, the Iraq War probably did result in Iran's decision. But it isn't the presence of troops - it's the absence of Iraq as a threat.
Of course, if America had debated spending trillions of dollars and thousands of US lives to make Iran the dominant power in the region, we might have chosen differently.
This is all pretty clear outside the beltway. Maybe that's why they call the foreign service area "Foggy Bottom."
