Mohammed Fadhil’s analysis is either naive or outright deception. This is one more game Iran’s Mullahs are playing to toy with America. They believe we’re totally gullible fools [and we've gone out of our way to justify this belief]. Persians have been playing these games for thousands of years, and only arrogance and ignorance -racist and supremacist at their core- would permit these “decision makers” to consistently ignore or redefine demonstrably hostile realities on the ground, down to something not requiring response.
For almost 30 years, we’ve rewarded each and every hostile act Iran has directed against the US, blaming some other chimerical “enemy.” Reagan, Carter, Clinton and the permanent foreign policy establishment have consistently misdirected Americans’ attention to believing that each of these Iranian aggressions was a matter of happenstance, accidents, or misunderstandings, or misinterpretations. Our blessed CIA has been wrong on Iran for 60 years, and almost everything else for as long, meanwhile we are bled of resources and murdered Americans [see Nathan Thrall's fine analysis published by GLORIA Center June 07].
This man Sadr needs to be removed from the scene, permanently, and sent to his 72 slave-virgins. Whenever US forces begin to close in on militias and make some positive headway, some State Dept. morons in the Admin will drag out a piece of blatant propaganda like this Fadhil “analysis” to cause the perps to escape, rearm, grow stronger and present a larger more difficult threat a few months hence.
Would it not be delightful to find someone in government with sufficient brain power to understand that if you kill an enemy the first time, you don’t have to face him again and again and again and again…… losing more American dead along the way? mariana
