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January 25, 2005
Iranian Invasion
Hersch has got us all in an uproar again. Good job for a journalist. God bless him. This time his news is twofold. One, Rumsfeld is into black ops. Two, target number one is Iran.
The structural change of putting espionage under the aegis of the Pentagon under the rhetoric of 'preparing the battlefield', is a stroke of administrative genius. It's still difficult to say if it's wise, given capabilities. Nevertheless from the gut reaction of this neocon, I think it's better than the alternative, which is CIA subversion.
There are several huge risks here. The first is that unless we are literally softening up targets, it's difficult to see how legit this forward action is if there is no declared war. I'm saying that the handoff from the There are several huge risks here. The first is that unless we are literally softening up targets, it's difficult to see how legit this forward action is if there is no declared war. I'm saying that the handoff from the State Department is not clear. Today, Americans have a general feeling that yeah Iran is in the Axis of Evil, but we don't know how much of a diplomatic threshold they are crossing or have crossed.
I understand the Pentagon's desire to get its own spies into the field. After all, who suffers in the eventual open war if the pre-conflict intel was bogus? The Armed Forces, not the CIA. But when is the status for a potential rogue state moved up to hostility?
On second thought, I just heard something that puts the kibosh on all this. All the Iranians have to do is send troops into Iraq. Game over.
Posted by mbowen at January 25, 2005 12:53 PM
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