A shockingly dishonest Op-Ed in today's New York Times by Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett.The Leveretts state that President Bush deserves criticism for hyping the nuclear threat-a danger the authors consider phantom given the recently released National Intelligence Estimate. This ignores the criticism that the NIE has gotten from across the political spectrum; from the IAEA to our allies in Europe. The authors have a strange perspective on Iran's goodwill to America:  Why should any Iranian leader take such rhetoric as a legitimate invitation to the table? Iran has tried tactical cooperation with the United States several times over the past two decades — including helping to secure the release of hostages from Lebanon in the late 1980s and sending shipments of arms to Bosnian Muslims when the United States was forbidden to do so. Yet each time, Tehran’s expectations of reciprocal good will have been dashed by American condemnation of perceived provocations in...(Read Full Post)