George Packer writes in The New Yorker (August 31):If there were a threat level on the possibility of war with Iran, it might have just gone up to orange. Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University, has written an account of a conversation with a friend who has connections to someone at a neoconservative institution in Washington. Rubin can’t confirm his friend’s story; neither can I. But it’s worth a heads-up:
They [the source’s institution] have “instructions” (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don’t think they’ll ever get majority support for this—they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is “plenty.”
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Can this possibly be?
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2 comments:
Wow it is scary, hopefully everyone doesn't fall for it this time.
They wouldn't dare!! Well, not unless they believe that Americans, without fail, rise to the occasion after a catastrophic event which threatens them and will support their president no matter how ridiculous his decision may be. They wouldn't dare! Well, not unless they believe that the only way Republicans have a chance to take back the power is to embark on a holy war against the evil Muslim demons out there who will surely strike again if we don't nip this in the bud early, just as we did in Iraq
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