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# The Neocons' Pretzel Logic on Iran
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/19116/
- Published: 2006-11-01T09:11:44.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:35:29.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

Today on the web-based magazine *Truthdig*, Nader Hashemi and I [expose](http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601031%5Fmax%5Fboot%5Fpretzel%5Flogic/?ref=opendemocracy.net) the shabbiness of neoconservative arguments about Iran by focusing on a recent *Los Angeles Times* [column](http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/la-oe-boot25oct25,0,1237357.column?coll=la-util-opinion-sunday&ref=opendemocracy.net) by Max Boot. As we write in the piece, there are so many things wrong with Boot's thinking one hardly knows where to begin -- but we zone in on three particularly egregious distortions, which we think exemplify deeper flaws in the neocons' Iran dance.