US strategy in Iraq
To most of us it's often hard to work out what the US game plan in Iraq is, or even if they have one at all. For the Administration's cheerleaders of course it's always obvious. The terrorists attacks bedevilling the coalition troops to us are a disaster of planning; to them it's actually Rummy's brilliant "flypaper" strategy to attack terrorists to where the US army can defeat them.Even so, it's hard to see how they'll spin today's news news(via Nick Barlow) that neo-con favourite Ahmed Chabali appears -- essentially - to have been an Iranian spy, and much of the intelligence fed to the US about Iraq was fed to them by Iranian intelligence. Even more confusingly Chabali was paid about £200,000 a month by the Americans to do this.
Perhaps this was a Wolfowitz master plan, paying a man to give American secrets to the Iranians in order to increase Iranian control in the region thus overstretching them causing their inevitable collapse? Or was this another Rummy grand idea, using US taxpayers money to give Iran secrets in return for increased oil? Or maybe this one was Bush's? Who knows.
posted by Matthew @ 5/22/2004 09:51:00 AM
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