David Brooks pens a column that suggests that the "Iran plan" ought to be a concerted, long-term effort, probably of the containment variety (something that doesn't fit well with the Russert enabled red-line crowd).
It's not clear that "opinion" matters to either Hezbollah or to Iran, right now. The one has just achieved an unprecedented political coup, getting Ayatollah-like "veto" authority. The other will guard "the Islamic revolution of Iran" with a Stalinist zeal...
Syria is not that hard to understand, is it?
A resurgent Iraq, over the next twelve years, could be the wildcard that Brooks doesn't mention ...
On thing he forgets from his memo, "The nervous militarists in Israel may require your veto in the security council, at any given time."
Friday, May 30, 2008
Iran: A game of degrees, not a pissing match
