Is the administration planning to roll out an attack plan for Iran this fall? You'd think, "What are they, nuts?" Ha! There are rumors. And take a look at this:
BOB Baer, the former Middle East CIA operative whose first book about his life inspired the oil-and-espionage thriller Syriana, is working on a new book on Iran, but says he was told by senior intelligence officials that he had better get it published in the next couple of months because things could be about to change.Baer, in an interview with The Weekend Australian, says his contacts in the administration suggest a strategic airstrike on Iran is a real possibility in the months ahead.
"What I'm getting is a sense that their sentiment is they are going to hit the Iranians and not just because of Israel, but due to the fact that Iran is the predominant power in the Gulf and it is hostile and its power is creeping into the Gulf at every level," Baer says.
He says his contacts have told him of his book: "You better hurry up because the thesis is going to change. I told them submission is in January but they said, 'You're probably going to be too late'."
(Hat tip: Larison, proving once again, happily for us, that his promises of fasting from blogging are in vain).
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AB, God bless you for your service, and keep you safe and bring you home whole.
I heard a rumor that “CIA” people who “must know” stuff are saying that there are secret plans to bomb people. And one real ex-CIA guy who’s selling books that are founded on the rumors is starting the rumors. And the rest of us aren’t gullible useful idiots. We’re seekers of “the truth”.
I echo Rod's prayer for AnotherBeliever. Do come home safe and sound, young soldier.
And when you do come home, please join us, the peaceniks. We're not all hippies, nuts and flakes. Many of us just abhor unnecessary violence.
Ditto PatientWitness --
This "peacenik" is a 44 year old conservative Republican and traditionalist Catholic. I used to be a rah-rah-er for military intervention anywhere, anytime. (I came of age when Jimmy Carter was president and eagerly voted in Ronaldus Magnus in his stead.) I remember standing with my pledge brothers and cheering when I heard about the release of of the Iranian hostages, just prior to Reagan's inauguration.
I'm older now and hopefully wiser. My eldest son is in seventh grade, and I've got three more behind him. I'd leave the U.S. before I'd let one of them die in another senseless invasion of a foreign country.
Gen. Smedley Butler (USMC) had it exactly right: war is a racket designed more for greed and weapons sales than for national defense. No more senseless deaths of our sons and daughters. No more.
My guess is that the decision has already been made, and only some unlikely events will change the course.
I hope I am wrong. However I am glad I am not the one with the responsibility of making the decision on this very tough one.
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