International affairs columnist and author Gwynn Dyer thinks that main loser for W's foreign policy initiatives was the U.S, but the main winner was Iran. Is this due to the usual explanation - W was too stupid to know anything about foreign policy -- or was he an Iranian sleeper agent?
Was George Bush a Sleeper?
'Bush’s actions as president did much more for Iran’s interests in the Middle East than for those of the United States.'In spy talk, a "sleeper" is somebody who lives his life in the target country, keeping his nose clean and climbing up the ranks of the local hierarchy, until he reaches a position in which he can be of great service to his true employers abroad. It’s time to inquire if that description fits former US president George W. Bush.
The question arises because Bush’s actions as president did much more for Iran’s interests in the Middle East than for those of the United States. Consider, for example, a little-noticed recent development in the six-month-old confrontation between pro-democracy protesters and the Baathist regime that rules Syria with an iron hand...
You can’t assume that George Bush was in Iran’s pay just because his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq destroyed that country’s two most serious enemies in the region, the Taliban regime in Kabul and Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. It could just have been deep ignorance and ideologically driven blindness. But how else can you explain this?
Iraq, almost uniquely among Arab states, supports and defends the Baathist regime’s actions in Syria. Earlier this month, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned the protesters not to "sabotage" the Syrian state. And this Iraqi government was created and nurtured by the Bush administration....http://embassymag.ca/dailyupdate/view/was_george_bush_a_sleeper_09-02-2011
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