This will shock everyone. The full editorial is here. Quote: "The dangers posed by Iran are serious, and America needs to respond with serious policies, not more theatrics. Labeling Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization — as the State Department now proposes — is another distraction when what the Bush administration needs to be doing is opening comprehensive negotiations with Tehran, backed by increasing international economic pressure. "
"Comprehensive negotiations" and "economic pressure"---liberal progressives' answer to everything. I'm sure Tehran's leaders are quaking in their boots. And are the NY Times' editors really unaware of the fact that the Bush administration's action yesterday will indeed allow it to toughen economic pressure on Iran??? Wow.