Sunday, June 10, 2007
U.S. support for Sunni terror groups
We've discussed the matter in these pages before. Seymour Hersh reports that the United States -- for strategic reasons -- supports violent jihadist, salafist groups in Lebanon. Why? Because those groups are Sunni. They thus stand in opposition to Hezbollah, which is Shi'ite.Hezbollah committed the unforgivable sin of kicking Israel's ass during the invasion of Lebanon.
Of course, this situation directly parallels our support for Bin Laden during the Afghan/USSR conflict. We all know how that turned out.
The architect of this policy is Dick Cheney. Everyone acknowledges his remarkable power, but nobody had yet explained to me how he acquired it. What previous Vice President would have dared what he has dared?
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and gee, duh, we're supporting the shi'ites in iraq??
er, who's on first, again?
In recent history, the only other one I see would be Bush Senior with Reagan the "Alzheimer puppet".
In my head, it's clear that Cheney is in charge. He's in a much better position than if he was directly the president. He has a obedient monkey mascot doing all the time consuming public activities while he can work in the shadow doing the real dirty work...
Previous Vice Presidents have had the unfortunate problem of working with marginally competent Presidents. Cheney obviously does not suffer from that restriction.
Hersh, as usual, is correct. The NY Times will report tomorrow that "the US military" has confirmed this story.
Apparently no Republican has ever taken a history course in college.
Likely Cheney has some real dirt on Bush. Remember how easily he selected himself to run as VP back in 2000? I'm sure he's way too discreet to mention to Bush what might be revealed. He allows Bush the illusion of being top dog, and Bush allows him to make decisions that don't involve a photo-op, or Rove's electoral sphere. That covers a lot of territory--the ME included.
Actually, this Administration is very similar to the old Roman Triumvirate. So it isn't a question of who the real President is; there isn't one. There are three Presidents: Bush, Cheney, and Rove. Each has his area of influence, and in that area his word is the law.
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