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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/opinion/20gerecht.html
Wage a War of Ideas with Iran
[New York Times] Reuel Marc Gerecht - The unclassified "key judgments" of the National Intelligence Estimate of November reveal that the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency did not - and in all probability, still do not - have human and technical sources inside the inner circles of the Iranian nuclear program. For selfish and malevolent reasons, China and Russia will not back tough sanctions. Neither likely will the trade-obsessed Germans and the increasingly self-absorbed British. Washington and Paris cannot play bad cop alone. We must find a way to restore the resolve of all those parties and hit Iran with a tsunami of sanctions if we are to diminish the victorious esprit in Tehran and the centrifuge production at Natanz. The writer, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.