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Iran: Letting a Crisis Go to Waste

By Troy Senik
Thursday, June 25 2009

“Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” White House Chief of Staff-to be Rahm Emanuel told the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council last November, “… [it’s] an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” In the nearly eight months that have passed since Emanuel made that statement, his words have been a cause for hyperventilation on the right – but that doesn’t mean he was wrong. American government is lethargic by design. The Founding Fathers shaped the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances with…

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