From: Jurriaan Bendien (adsl675281@TISCALI.NL)
Date: Mon Feb 26 2007 - 15:24:08 EST
Reading Seymour Hersh's article http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh I had to think of the historical analogy of the Cuban missiles crisis of 1962 (George W. Bush would have just turned 16 at that time, and was living in Texas). The difference is that the Russians and Cubans really had nuclear weapons, but Iran doesn't have them. We are dealing here with a pre-emptive policy against what might/could/would happen. I previously quoted Hilary Clinton "This was his [i.e. Bush's decision to go to war [in Iraq]. He went with an ill-conceived plan, an incompetently executed strategy, and we should expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office." We can see better now what this "extrication" portends. Scary stuff really. Maybe Hilary ought to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss to get a better appreciation of what we're dealing with here. Macabre factoid: Elliott Abrams in his youth was a member of the Young People's Socialist League for a while. I did not know that, when I tried to figure out more about his life from the press reports http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2003w35/msg00069.htm (of course I am only an amateur writer, no Seymour Hersh). Jurriaan
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