Gitlin Examines the US-Israel-Iran Pas De Trois (and the Speaking Style of Arrogant People)

On Kissinger: "A certain Henry Kissinger loaded his talk with rumbling cliches and managed the silences between his phrases in a simulation of gravitas... almost nothing he said had any propositional content." This is (I've often noticed) how extremely arrogant people generally talk: because they consider themselves so important, anything they say is ipso facto interesting, so they don't really bother about details like substance, coherence, or brevity.

Anyway, the piece is really about mistaking Ahmadinejad for Hitler rather than Mussolini - and you should read the whole thing.