The Iranian Time Bomb

Here's a FrontPage Magazine interview with Michael Ledeen. Gives accurate insight into the extreme danger emanating from the Mullahs of Iran.
FROM FRONTPAGEMAG.COM:
The Iranian Time Bomb
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/1/2007
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Michael A. Ledeen, a resident scholar at the American Enterprises Institute and a contributor to The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Machiavelli on Modern Leadership and Tocqueville on American Character. His new book is The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots' Quest for Destruction.

FP: Michael A. Ledeen, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Ledeen: It is always great to chat with you Jamie.

FP: What inspired you to write this book?

Ledeen: My editor at St. Martin's, Mac Talley, proposed it and I accepted.

FP: Why was the U.S. so unprepared for 9/11?

Ledeen: Lousy intelligence, driven by many years of policy makers who didn't want to know what was really going on, because they were not prepared to act against the terror masters.

FP: Can you talk about some of the ways that the Clinton administration left us vulnerable to 9/11?

Ledeen: Two main ways. The first is the empowerment of Iran, a story I had forgotten until I was forced to review the Clinton years while writing "The Iranian Time Bomb." Clinton carried out three secret policies: first, he arranged to have Iran arm the Bosnians via secret arms deliveries. This violated UN Resolutions and public American policy. Second, he permitted Russia to arm Iran. And third, he permitted Russia to provide Iran with nuclear technology. Ironically, the latter two deals were negotiated by Vice President Al Gore, and both contravened a law known as the McCain-Gore Act.
The second is the well-known failure to know enough about al Qaeda, and to act against it. By now, there are several extensive treatments of these monumental failures, of which the two most famous are the reports by the 9/11 Commission and the Silberman-Robb Commission.
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