Iran has made itself into an enemy   The June 16 column by Dan
Simpson asks, "Must We Make Iran an Enemy?" The obvious answer
is, no. We don't need to do that, since Iran is doing it for us.
On the day the Post-Gazette published Mr. Simpson's
irresponsible and dangerous piece, Agence France-Presse reported
that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad roused the rabble in Shahrekord with a
message to the United States: "This nation ... hates you." The
crowd answered with cries of "Death to America!"  As evidence
that the United States and Iran "played ball" together during
the Reagan administration, all Mr. Simpson manages to dig up is
the Iran-Contra affair, which he labels "famous." A more apt
descriptor for that sorry episode, which led to the conviction
of several high-level White House operatives, would be
"infamous" or even "scummy."  Mr. Simpson claims Iran wants to
develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes, despite massive
evidence to the contrary. "The problem," he admits in passing,
"is that the Iranian government ha