Enough Overheated Iran Spin!

Will empty campaign talking points unwittingly lead to war? The Guardian’s Heather Hurlburt worries it might. With “conservative presidential candidates [falling] all over themselves to match Herman Cain’s toughness in pledging to send an aircraft carrier to block Iran’s terrorist plots,” this may be a situation where idle spin gets in the way of diplomacy. After all, there is plenty of evidence that Iran and the West have room to negotiate peace, but overheated rhetoric “really should worry military planners and civilian leaders alike.”