Bump.
Changing the conventional wisdom about IranJust in time for the election campaign, Time Magazine informs its readers that candidate McCain's thinking on Iran is old school, and even the Bush Administration is coming around to the Obama Way of Thinking.
Even former Republican Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, James Baker and Colin Powell have urged expanding direct contacts between the two nations, and the Bush Administration last July sent U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs William Burns sat down with diplomats from Iran and Europe to discuss the nuclear stand-off. Regardless of campaign-trail rhetoric, the need to talk directly to Tehran is fast becoming bipartisan conventional wisdom in the U.S. foreign policy establishment.