ElBaradei to get Third Term: "Over the weekend, Dafna Linzer at the Washington Post reported that ‘all 15 countries approached by U.S. diplomats—including Britain, Canada and Australia—refused to support’ Washington’s efforts to deny Mohamad ElBaradei a third as IAEA Director General. ‘Everyone turned us down, even the Brits,’ one U.S. policymaker plaintively told The Post. Apparently, wiretaps and subtle racism just don’t go as far as they did when Nixon was president."

(Via ArmsControlWonk.com.)