The Big Picture
May 8th, 2008 at 1:24 pm by Susie
As rumored for years, yes, cheerful war criminal Donald Rumsfeld was pushing Bush for “regime change” in Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Lebanon:
Rumsfeld’s proposal called explicitly for postponing indefinitely U.S. airstrikes and the use of ground forces in support of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in order to try to catch bin Laden. Instead the Rumsfeld paper argued that the U.S. should target states which had supported anti-Israel forces such as Hezbollah and Hamas. It urged that the United States “[c]apitalize on our strong suit, which is not finding a few hundred terrorists in caves in Afghanistan, but in the vastness of our military and humanitarian resources, which can strengthen the opposition forces in terrorist-supporting states.”
And look how well that worked out in Iraq!
it also shows a complete lack of ability to distinguish between different groups with different agendas. hezbollah, for example, is a shia group. the only time it has ever expressed a desire to attack the u.s. was when the u.s. marines were in lebanon during the lebanese civil war and perceived to be on a different side than the shia faction. hezbollah and al qaeda can’t stand each other (al qaeda views the shia as infidels and calls for their eventual destruction)
you’d think after 9/11 the head of our military would try to focus on the group that actually attacked the u.s., rather than the one that had no serious beef with this country once we pulled out of lebanon in the 1980s.
Vastness! Lord, what a fool!