Listening to Hugh's discussion with Christopher Hitchens today (audio sure to be here shortly), Hitch brought up the fact that Robert Gates was a key architect of a paper with President Carter’s national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski which advocated (in Hitch's words) "making nice with the mullahs".

Being a primary-source kinda guy, I went looking for the paper online, and sure enough, here it is. From the executive summary:

Rejecting the conventional wisdom that Iran is on the verge of another revolution, the report calls for the United States to reassess its long-standing policy of non-engagement with the current Iranian government...

Hmmm. Sounds suspiciously like making nice to me. Haven't read the whole thing yet, but I suggest we all should do so...

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