Great. According to this Andrew Cockburn op-ed,
"Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, 'unprecedented in its scope.'"Kicker is, some of the groups we're supporting (such as Mujahedin-e Khalq and Jundullah) are on our own State Department's list of terrorist groups.
How's that for moral high ground? If this is true, now we're "aiding and abetting" terrorist groups, which has been the very charge leveled at Afghanistan and Iraq preceding our invasion.
In any case, this certainly lends itself to conjecture that the US may pursue more aggressive action against Iran for the same reasons, which in my opinion, would be even more of a disaster, not to mention ironic, given this latest news.
As Cockburn mentioned, Centcom commander Admiral Fallon recently left his post and will be replaced by Gen Petraeus. i was alarmed when Fallon left, and have been keeping my ear to the ground with issues involving Iran ever more so carefully since.
Surely a piece like Cockburn's has to be taken with a grain of salt (or in my case, a few grains) but i think we can all sift through the alarmism and find the important warnings we won't be getting elsewhere.
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I like how Iran actually had a fledling deomcracy in the 1960-1970s... then we decided we didn't like the guy elected into office there and trashed it. (is it explained in the recent movie, Charlie's War, or something like that?)
So what's the motive?
Fight fire with fire?
Personal vendetta against Iran?
i don't know! One theory has to do with our dollar. We invaded Iraq shortly after Saddam decided our currency wasn't more stable than the Euro for selling oil, and began making sales in Euros only. Iran made this same decision just recently.
In some sense or another, it's got to be greed. i once secretly thought "The love of money is the root of all evil" was at least a little exaggerated, but more and more i realize he was dead-on there. And in our case, we know war makes some people very rich at the expense of everyone else. The presense of great oil reserves in the region only compound this.
For more clues as to what the neocons have planned, i refer you to the Project for the New American Century, specifically the pre-911 document "Rebuilding America's Defenses" that calls for war with Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and -get this- Venezuela.
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