There’s a bizarre phenomenon common among American journalists whereby they approach U.S. politicians and policymakers with the utmost cynicism, as they should, but take foreign adversaries such as Iran and its proxies at their word. The polarization of national security and U.S. foreign policy in the wake of 9/11 has only exacerbated this concerning trend.
In the aftermath of President George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech, for example, New York Times’ correspondent Neil MacFarquhar wrote that a million people attended an anti-United States rally in Iran, and reported:
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