More Phillips madness
Melanie Phillips, who believes that every educated person in this country who opposed the invasion of Iraq believes it was 'cooked up by the Jews', now explainsthe story of Ahmed Chalabi. Approvingly quoting another website,'In a way, the Americans and the Iranians used Chalabi for their own purposes. The Iranians used him to screen information from the Americans more than to give false information. The Americans used him to try to convince the Iranians that they had a sufficient degree of control over the situation and that it was in their interests to maintain stability in the Shiite regions. At this point, it is honestly impossible to tell who got the better of whom. But this much is certain. Chalabi, for all his cleverness, is just another used-up spook, trusted by no one, trusting even fewer. Geopolitics trumps conspiracy every time.'
our Melanie concludes:
Unfortunately, the ideologues, fellow travellers and dupes of the anti-war lobby have got this precisely the other way round.
Ah. Of course. It's the left's fault. In the real world of course, a bit like 'fly-paper' theory (that one was thought up by Andrew Sullivan, IIRC) this is probably as silly as Mel's theory that every educated anti-war people think the war was 'all cooked up by the Jews'. Kevin Drum has the more realistic story.
posted by Matthew @ 6/02/2004 01:53:00 PM
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