Diplomacy Is Cheaper Than War by Jude Wanniski

As best I can tell, you and the rest of the American people have been misled to that belief in the same way the neocons in the Bush administration fooled you on Iraq.

I noted an informal poll last night on CNN where the audience responded two-to-one in the belief that Iran at the present time has an ongoing nuclear weapons program. It does not. I've been pointing out for some time now that these fictions have been cooked up by John Bolton, the undersecretary of state for non-proliferation, a junior officer in the neocon bureaucratic army that is devoted to the use of force to get what it wants.