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POPSDvorak Diplomacy The U.S. State Department has mostly abandoned the kind of cultural diplomacy it practiced during the Cold War, when it funded libraries and concerts around the world. In their place we got Al Hurra television and Radio Sawa, both mocked by their target audiences as propaganda. The New York Philharmonic's trip to Pyongyang -- approved but not funded by the State Department -- marks a return to the old-fashioned approach. Perhaps it can create a tiny trickle of a thaw where six-party talks have failed.
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POPSWorld War III Cancelled So it turns out that Iran stopped developing nuclear weapons in 2003, according to the new National Intelligence Estimate. It's easy to distrust the U.S. intelligence community, which not only made mistakes on Al-Qaeda and Iraq, but also told us in 2005 that Tehran was determined to build nukes. But there's at least one thing we can all be relieved about today: Imminent open warfare between the U.S. and Iran is almost certainly off the table.
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