The Cheney administration has scored another stunning diplomatic victory! By saber-rattling for the last year, they have caused the Iranian “regime” to stop developing nukeyuler weapons 4 years ago. This is just the most recent success of the Bush Doctrine of Retroactive Diplomacy. Attacking Iraq in 2003 caused them to destroy their weapons of mass destruction 10 years earlier, not to mention Libya negotiating the end of their nukeyuler program a year earlier. The Surge in Baghdad caused the Anbar revival to start one year earlier.

Fortunately, Rudy! has embraced this policy, claiming in his latest commercial that swearing-in Ronald Reagan caused Iran to retroactively negotiate and sign the Algiers Accords, releasing the US hostages. Thank god for such backward-looking leadership, both now and in the future. Or past. Whatever.