Engaging Iran

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ENGAGING IRAN….Should we engage directly with Iran, as Barack Obama suggests? The experts speak:

Five former U.S. secretaries of state said on Monday the next American administration should talk to Iran, a foe President George W. Bush has generally shunned as part of an “axis of evil.”

….The five — Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Warren Christopher, James Baker and Henry Kissinger — all said they favored talking to Iran as part of a strategy to stop Tehran’s development of a nuclear weapons program.

Sure, that’s nearly every living former secretary of state in the last 30 years, but who listens to experts these days? Not John McCain! Listening to experts is for wimps.