White House certainly has changed its tune on Iran

Dallas Morning News | Carl Leubsdorf:

“The administration's approach both to Iran and to North Korea, the third member of the terrorist triumvirate that Mr. Bush targeted as an "axis of evil," will differ in its final 30 months from the unilateral, pre-emptive approach the president took in deciding to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. That means more emphasis on diplomacy and economic muscle and less likelihood that Mr. Bush would use military means to keep the North Koreans and Iranians from developing nuclear weapons.”

Ed Cognoski responds:

The change is welcome. Perhaps the best news of all is how quiet the war hawks have been about this change in policy. If it had been a Democratic President suggesting we use diplomacy and multilateral solutions instead of military solutions, cries of weakness, appeasement and surrender would be filling the talk radio airwaves by now.

Maybe next, the President will invite former Presidents Clinton and Carter to the White House for consultation on how diplomacy and economic pressure work. OK, that's hoping for too much. I'd settle for this President just listening a little to his Dad.