The National Review showers us with riches today.. not one, but two essays by Michael Ledeen! What an embarrassment of riches... or, well, an embarrassment at least.
So what does Mr Ledeen have to say? In his first offering, Ledeen explains why he does not believe David Kay's report about Iraqi's WMD. Why does he doubt Kay's conclusions, after Kay's time on the ground in Iraq searching and interviewing and so forth? Because, get this, Ledeen once talked to this guy who told him that Iran had smuggled some uranium from Iraq, and he told Kay he should check it out, but nothing ever came of it! Yup - some unreliable defector tried to sell the US a bill of goods via a reliable conduit for such bogus intel, and nothing panned out. And that is why Ledeen doesn't believe Kay. Ouch. I'll bet Kay feels pretty dumb now.
Okay, so that was underwhelming. What about the second part of this Ledeenapalooza? Three congressmen are appeasing Iran, in collusion with the State Department, by treacherously trying to improve relations and build on that whole "accepting inspections of its nuclear program" thing. Only Ledeen doesn't really mention the nuclear thing - he professes himself perplexed at why anyone would think this a good time to explore an opening with Iran. I wouldn't have thought that there was much too this initiative - sending some Congressional staffers doesn't really seem like much - except for how hysterical it seems to have made Ledeen. At one point he wonders whether the "appeasers" are actually mentally unbalanced; and then he says this: "Appeasers are sent deep into the Inferno, because their acts are truly wicked, shoring up our would-be killers and discouraging our would-be allies inside the country." At the end of the essay he frets, referring to "the appeasers," that "justice will be delayed until their final judgment. Faster, please." Which sounds an awful lot like Ledeen is hoping that they die, which sounds an awful lot like what someone like Khomeini would have said.
Just another day in Ledeen Land.
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