I know we’re not supposed to say anything nice about the New York Times, but Thomas Friedman’s column today on Iranian and Korean nukes is a reassuring bit of sanity in the national debate. Key graf:

The prevailing assumption in Washington is that if
something really big is going wrong – like North Korea and Iran going
nuclear – it must be because America messed up. Yes, the Bush
nonproliferation policy has been pretty dysfunctional, but the real problem
is that those parties with the leverage to make a diplomatic difference
refuse to use it. (We have already largely isolated Iran and North
Korea. There is nothing much more America can threaten, short of using
force.) 

It’s only one column, but at least it’s one.