I've often been curious as to how The New York Times goes about selecting which letters to publish on its editorial page. Often the majority of the letters represent a decidedly (and at times extremely) left-wing worldview, but it's impossible to know if this is because the vast majority of the letters they receive are that way or if it is because there is a systematic effort to cull conservative voices. I believe a newspaper's duty is to publish a representative sample of the letters they receive from both the left and right, but I'm not sure if the Times' editors believe the same.

Having said that, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the majority of the letters the Times published today in response to the Barry Posen article I addressed earlier this week are sane and skeptical of Posen's argument that a nuclear Iran can be "managed."

The lone exception, it should come as no surprise, is from a senior researcher of the "International Peace Research Institute." Each day that goes by I become more convinced that "peace" activists are just modern day appeasers.