Robert Parry: A Way Forward, A Look Back--Consotiuum News best of the Left!

[montieg]

Similar to marmar's post earlier about the TG Ash article, this is one of the clearest expositions of the debacle in the mideast I have ever read. Easy to understand, Parry concisely flays the neo-con short-sightedness and perfidy:

"During the war, the Reagan administration tilted back and forth, secretly supplying weapons to both sides. CIA Director William Casey and other Reagan hard-liners privately relished how the two-sided policy let the Iraqis and Iranians kill each other while generating profits for favored arms suppliers.

But the war also created instability in the region that continues to play out to this day.....

.....Spurning the cautionary advice of his father’s national security advisers, the younger George Bush implemented this neoconservative plan by invading Iraq in 2003, dismantling Hussein’s power structure and putting the long-oppressed Shiite majority into a position of dominance.

But the U.S. occupation of Iraq set off a string of unintended consequences that disrupted the power balance in the region."

To quote the Irishman in Braveheart, "I've just spoken to the good Lord and He says He can get me out of this mess but He's pretty sure you're focked."

[Morgana LaFey]

1. I'd like to read the rest. Link?

[laststeamtrain]

2. Here you go...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x251565