According to Wesley Clark's NYTimes op-ed yesterday...
Dubya and the Neocons are doing things that Iran only could dream of!
Things like taking out Saddam and putting him on trial for War Crimes.
And giving the Iraqi Shia community control of the government in Baghdad...AND THE OIL WEALTH IN THE SOUTH... The Shia cause will be very well funded if Dubya is "successful" in Iraq. And that might even include "wiping Israel off the map" as the Iranian president said recently.
The real kicker for how badly things are going in Iraq is this issue of border security... The US is constantly involved at the Syrian border...supposedly stopping "foreign Jihadists" from crossing over into Iraq...
BUT THERE IS ALMOST NO TALK OF THE IRANIAN BORDER!
Are American troops "confronting" Iranian military at the Iraq/Iran border...APPARENTLY NOT! Or at least it's never in the press. Or, maybe we're just letting the Iraqi shia militia "control" the Iran/Iraq border...!
TALK ABOUT HAVING A BUCKET WITH A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM...
APPARENTLY DUBYA, RUMMY AND NEOCONS WOULD RATHER CONFRONT A SMALLER AND WEAKER NATION LIKE SYRIA...RATHER THAN LOOK AT THE REAL PROBLEM NAMELY: THE RISE OF IRAN.
THE ACCENT OF IRAN AS "THE MAJOR POWER" IN THE MIDDLE EAST...ALL THANKS TO DUBYA'S ILL-PLANNED AND ILL-PREPARED WAR AGAINST SADDAM IS WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT! NOT SADDAM. NOT THE SUNNI "INSURGENTS." AND NOT SYRIA.
After noting that Bush is "playing Iran's game"...Clark goes on the defensive with a lot of mumbo-jumbo about rethinking the mission and changing the strategy...etc etc. Clark is sort of the Democratic John McCain in that respect...but he's on the right track.
