Joe Klein gets a lot wrong, but he seems to have exposed a blind spot in John McCain’s understanding of Iran (or demonstrated McCain is willing to mis-educate the American people just as the Bush administration fostered the common misconception that Saddam Hussein was somehow involved in 9/11),...
Deception or ignorance? That seems to be the question every time John McCain makes a foreign policy gaffe. Whether its Sunnis or Shi'a or yesterday on the nature of Iran's government. Joe Klein reports: At a press conference here, I just asked John McCain about why he keeps talking about Obama's...
Yesterday, Time's Joe Klein noted that he could find no evidence that Sen. Barack Obama had ever specifically said he would negotiate with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: On Friday, I promised to check into whether Obama had ever said that he would negotiate--specifically, by name -- with Mahmoud...
Savannah, Ga. At a press conference here, I just asked John McCain about why he keeps talking about Obama's alleged willingness to talk to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has no power over Iranian foreign policy, rather than Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who does. He said that Ahmadinejad is the guy who...