The Corner  The one and only.  America’s Greatest Threat   Over
at his always interesting blog, Jeffrey Goldberg (no relation)
responds to a complaint from Conor Friedersdorf. Actually, it’s
not so much a complaint, as a complaint masquerading as a
rhetorical question.  In response to Mitt Romney’s utterly
conventional claim that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear
weapons program is America’s top national security priority,
Friedersdorf writes:   It’s difficult to know if Mitt Romney
actually regards Iranian nukes as his highest priority, or if he
just thinks it’s the subject on which he can most usefully draw
a contrast with President Obama (though it’s unclear what the
differences in their actual positions are, especially since both
men are prone to changing them).  Goldberg’s response is pretty
generous. He takes the question in good faith and responds,
basically, yes it should be our top national-security priority.
I don’t have any objection to that.  My problem with Goldberg’s
response is that it mis