AMERICAN FUTURE » Tom Friedman on the NIE

re: "Friedman has just returned from the Bahrain security conference, at which “all the buzz” was about the latest NIE on Iran. Friedman says that it left every Arab and European expert he spoke to “baffled” — “not in its conclusions, but by why those conclusions were framed in a way that is sure to reduce America’s leverage to negotiate with Tehran.” /In his New York Times op-ed, Friedman presents an interesting analogy..."...