Must read IMHO

Foreign Policy Watch is always good, this one in particular.

Amid increasing coverage of the internal rift over how to handle Iran, it's time to consider a more likely explanation of how the usually on-message Bush administration has allowed dissent from stated U.S. policy on Iran to become so public. Especially considering that the Departments of State and Defense have maintained that military action against Iran is not an immediate option or logical next step, any real internal dissent would likely be treated more discretely. In that light, perhaps hawkish talk from V.P. Cheney and his staff constitutes the "bad cop" portion of the classic "good cop, bad cop" tack taken by countless fictive detectives when handling suspects/villainous Miami-based drug kingpins.