Smart

Yglesias is absolutely right about this. The Iran NIE may stand as the Bush Administration's--unwitting, unwilling, kicking and screaming--foreign policy "triumph" of the year...and an advance indication of how the world might respond to a new, more reasonable Administration.

But the fact that the UN is still moving ahead with a new sanctions regime is also an indication of how seriously the Security Council--with the possible exception of China--takes Iran's uranium enrichment program. Let's not forget that.