Giving the “Enemy” a Field Day
Watching America has barely been able to keep up with all of the stories over the last week from the Middle East on the American Intelligence Report on Iranian Nukes (or not)
The world looks on in wonder as the U.S. continues to perfect the art of removing the rug from under itself while it still stands on it.
The Iranian press is full of “We told you so”. Those closer to home, and with a little more detachment are floating such comments as
the Bush administration’s publication and embrace of what could soon prove one of the stupidest intelligence assessments in history”
-as in a poetically entitled article, “Making the Ayatollahs Laugh” from the Ottawa Citizen.
So here, for your amusement are a couple of cartoons, and for your convenience links to foreign press articles about the Intelligence Assessment of Iranian nuclear capability.
U.S. Intelligence Agencies Play Safe on Iranian WMD (from France)
The Third World War – Cancelled (from Germany)
Americans’ Attitude to Intelligence Report Reminiscent of Auschwitz (from Israel)
and, from the horse’s mouth, so to speak
U.S. NEI Report Proves Correctness of Iran’s Resistance (from Iran)
But a report is just a report.
The REAL story, perhaps, is the one you haven’t heard so much of in the U.S. yet: Iran has stopped selling its oil in US dollars. More on that at Watching America, too.
2 Responses to “Giving the “Enemy” a Field Day”
Iranian nukes, the intel report, and the hyperventilating over it are the real story here, not the US dollar story.
Actually, this has me thinking of the anti-war people and an alternative to the war we fought in Iraq with the problem-ridden occupation and other numerous problems associated with it, an alternative I’ve never heard from these people in hindsight, nor from anyone else so far. Hint: What are we reluctant to do in Iran, despite the “warmonger” charges from the Usual Suspects? We could have done it on a much smaller scale in Iraq, much smaller scale than we’d do in Iran, and more safely, with much less risk of retaliation. Prevent access to, or expel inspectors, from a site? Destroy it. Quickly a pattern would present itself, hopefully one spawning learning and a good response.