Noise from Iran

Here's Don Rumsfeld's view on all the posturing and threats coming from Iran's President lately:

He said Iranian leaders feel threatened by the burgeoning democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq, which geographically bookmark Iran. "The last thing Iran wants is to have successful regimes, representative systems, free people, in Afghanistan and Iraq," he said. "It is harmful to their extreme view of the world."
Rumsfeld said continued success in Iraq and Afghanistan will help contain extremism in Iran. "Success in Afghanistan and success in Iraq is critical to containing the extreme impulses that we see emanating from Iran," he said.

He's right, change makes people nervous. That may also be the reason Rumsfeld himself is so often attacked by the generals formerly under his command.