January 16, 2008 11:02AM 

# To Hell With the Facts, We’re Still in This Thing! 

By [Justin Logan](https://www.cato.org/people/justin-logan) 

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Readers will no doubt be relieved that the new US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran has done nothing to dampen literary-critic-cum-Giuliani-foreign-policy-adviser Norman Podhoretz’s [enthusiasm for starting another Middle Eastern war](http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/Stopping-Iran-br--Why-the-Case-for-Military--Action-Still-Stands-11085).

The Munich analogy and Winston Churchill make prominent appearances. No word, per Podhoretz’s prior comments on what went wrong after Vietnam, on whether [gay people are to blame](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8777) for the NIE.

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