Ed, ignore Greenwald.

I don’t know the guy, but he is a bit unhinged and certainly intellectually dishonest. One recent experience: After he found out that I drafted the Bipartisan Policy Center’s recent report on U.S. Policy Toward a Nuclear Iran, he wrote the following:

“Dr. Michael Rubin” is the supremely crazed neocon of National Review and the American Enterprise Institute, a former Giuliani advisor who has a single-minded obsession with urging American war on Iran.

The only problem is that I’m quite critical of U.S. military action against Iran for a variety of reasons, and have a consistent record in that regard. Glenn Greenwald simply made it up. (My writing on Iran generally focuses on how to coerce changes in Iranian behavior short of kinetic action). Generally speaking, you can always tell when Greenwald or his fellow-travelers are losing it or do not have any grasp of an issue because they substitute insults and labels for serious policy discourse. That Salon promotes Greenwald’s dishonesty is a pity and undercuts its credibility.