If one were to deny Barack Obama the use of straw-man attacks, misrepresentation of facts, accusations that opponents are operating in bad faith, and other non-sequiturs, one would hear mostly silence coming from the White House. This administration is chronically incapable of having a serious argument with its opponents.

The latest such example of Obama’s speciousness has come, unsurprisingly, on Iran. Via the Washington Free Beacon, here is the response of Marie Harf, the State Department spokeswoman, to the damning op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Henry Kissinger and George Schultz: