"This is the key trait that has defined the current Bush administration since its early years in office: It’s committed to duplicating failures; instead of abandoning the Iraqi ship, it insists on setting sale in the same tumultuous sea, another defected one." The relationship between Iran and the United States is one of peculiar temperament: intense but accommodating at times, barefaced and seemingly self-destructive at others.
Currently, the latter estimation rings truer: the US naval military build up in the east Mediterranean and the Gulf, conjoined with an intense and sinister propaganda campaign that is being drummed up at home, among other signals, are all pointing to one ill-fated conclusion: the Bush administration, entranced in its foolishness, has decided to discard, and in its entirety, the Baker-Hamilton recommendations; instead of engaging Iran politically, the US is opting to engage it militarily. (MORE)
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-020707195905.htm
Please also see:
The Persian Gulf: a war of position by Paul Rogers
The logistics of the United States military build-up off Iran's coast are ominous. http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict/persian_gulf_4332.jsp
Currently, the latter estimation rings truer: the US naval military build up in the east Mediterranean and the Gulf, conjoined with an intense and sinister propaganda campaign that is being drummed up at home, among other signals, are all pointing to one ill-fated conclusion: the Bush administration, entranced in its foolishness, has decided to discard, and in its entirety, the Baker-Hamilton recommendations; instead of engaging Iran politically, the US is opting to engage it militarily. (MORE)
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-020707195905.htm
Please also see:
The Persian Gulf: a war of position by Paul Rogers
The logistics of the United States military build-up off Iran's coast are ominous. http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict/persian_gulf_4332.jsp