Mad Dog Madeline Halfbright’s hoof prints are all over the “flood the zone” coverage the Council on Foreign Relations is giving to Iran and Russia. From the NY Times, to the Tehran Times to an upcoming Newsweek piece, the CFR’s Dukakisinian helmeted think tank operators are pre-emptively striking an unconditional surrender pose as the best course of action for dealing with Ahmadinejad/the 12th imam and the rising Neo-Soviet interference in Iran and the world over:

The bottom line: Washington must accept certain distasteful facts—beginning with Iran’s ascendance as a regional power and the staying power of its regime. It should open talks with Iran, not in order to limit its growing power—an impossibility—but with a view toward regulating it and curbing potential excesses. In other words, Washington should embrace a policy of détente, just as it did in the past with such seemingly intractable enemies as China and the Soviet Union.

Could Tehran ultimately prove to be as willing a negotiating partner as Beijing and Moscow once were? There are reasons to hope so.

That last sentence is so loaded that it’s practically dripping with sour cream and bacon bits. And it’s a telling portent of what the Surrender Caucus of the Democrat Party inhabiting the CFR thinks our diplomatic efforts should be towards Tehran. As if our policy towards China and Russia is something worth emulating.

Write this down: This message of mau-mauing the mad mullahs will be the establishment Democrat’s stand on dealing with the prospect of a nuclear Iran when running for the Presidency in 2008.

More Lip Service Diplomacy from the people who gave us a nuclear Korean peninsula while turning a blind eye to the Chinese crackdown on dissidents in the 90s in exchange for campaign funds and nuclear secrets.

So much of this presupposes that we are not engaged in a policy of détente with Russia that is still not working. When Comrade Putin lashed out at this week’s Munich Conference about the “almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations.”, he displayed Russia’s rote habit of neurotically projecting what it is doing on to its enemies. Typical Russian “Snowball’s destroying the windmill” maneuvering.

- From supplying an $800MM nuclear reactor to Iran
- Billions in arms transfers from Russia to Iran since 1998.
- Attempting to form a new gas cartel ME despots
- Already blackmailing former Soviet republics with energy
- Selling over $7 billion in weapons and anti-aircraft systems to Venezuela in the last two years alone.
- Meddling in Brazil’s energy markets
- Re-asserting Russia’s allegiance to anti-US regimes in Central America
- Killing unarmed Japanese fishermen to assert Russian dominance over disputed fishing territories

In short, there is a unilateral power destabilizing every region of the world and overstepping its boundaries in every arena. But it’s not us.

When the time comes, will we have anyone in power with the temerity to say so? Not if we’re being advised by the Halfbright Intifada starting, Nork bribing, Chicom campaign fundraising appeasers on the CFR.

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