“After all, while both want influence, neither demands domination.”

Given the historical evidence in the form of statements followed by actions from the Mad Dog Mullhas, I tend to see this article as more crack dreams from Stratfor. Stratfor has never been the ones to let hard, cold facts come between them and their fantasies. I still get a chuckle out of their predictions on Afghanistan;

http://eha.no-ip.org/eHa/wiki/index.php?page=2001-10-25+Stratfor%3A+Kabul+and+the+Air+Campaign+are+a+Sideshow

http://eha.no-ip.org/eHa/wiki/index.php?page=2001-11-13+Stratfor%3A+Taliban+Withdrawal+was+Strategy+Not+Rout

If there is another group this clueless, Please point them out. Debkka files? The Mossad Edition? Perhaps.
On a positive note, at least it gives CIA analysts who retire after 30 years of incompetence as GS12′s something to do. The last thing we need is them loose on the streets. It would be the Keystone cops doing ‘Burn Notice’.
I could understand being wrong 90+% of the time if they were doing Black Swan predictions, but this is run of the mill, bread and butter stuff.
The Mad Dog Mullahs make no secret of their ambitions. After all those ambitions were oulined in a book written about 1400 years ago. The cat is out of the bag.
I guess 1400 years isn’t long enough for Stratfor to figure it out. Pretty soon now.