http://scotthorton.org/2012/10/02/100212-ray-mcgovern/
Interviewer Scott Horton cites Ray’s recent piece on this issue, and asks why the change from Ray’s more alarmist warnings over the past several months.
Answer: when new evidence comes in, one needs to be open to letting it change your mind. In other words, Emerson was right when he wrote:
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds; adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
The interview also deals with possibility that AIPAC may well have lost influence, under the impact of Netanyahu’s bullying and bluster. That an incident cannot be ruled out, however, is clear from neocons like WINEP’s Patrick Clawson openly advocating provoking Iran into war.
Ray talks about his (and about 80 other activists’) recent diner in New York with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and how he (Ray) managed to resist the temptation to sing a new verse from Porgy and Bess’s “That ain’t necessarily so,” to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Tape of interview runs for 24 minutes, from min. 2:00 to 26:00.