Friday, January 12, 2007

President Starts Covert War, Announces It In Prime Time

The Washington Note: "Washington intelligence, military and foreign policy circles are abuzz today with speculation that the President, yesterday or in recent days, sent a secret Executive Order to the Secretary of Defense and to the Director of the CIA to launch military operations against Syria and Iran.

The President may have started a new secret, informal war against Syria and Iran without the consent of Congress or any broad discussion with the country."


What's the Brit word? Gobsmacked?

4 comments:

Unknown said...

me too.

buddy larsen said...

I'd be SO proud of the admin if it did just that. Question--have the last two years been just the needed word to the world: "Well, we tried and tried to do this peacefully" --?

Take a look at Spengler's latest.

Rick Ballard said...

Buddy,

Mohammed at ITM has a good piece up. I get a kick out of the Kurd's applause.

It was kind of the President to outline Maliki's assurances of support. I hope that the translation into Arabic was complete - just so the Iraqis aren't confused about what their PM is saying to the Americans.

Syl said...

There were two things in that ITM piece that should be noted:

(1)The violence isn't necessarily sectarian--it's strangers to the neighborhoods that get killed, no matter whether sunni or shia.

(2)Sistani basically said the militias should be disarmed.

And, after reading Spengler's piece, I think many American's emphasis on 'sectarian' violence and 'civil war', including his, is a non-sequitor.

It's the violence itself that matters, not who is killing whom. People just get sick of the violence. Period.