Mystical Politics Paparazi: Dissection of the NeoCons

Monday, November 20, 2006

Dissection of the NeoCons

by Seymour Hersh
It seems I only got part of the true position of the NeoCon Revolution's current state in my post NeoCons Under The Bus. That is not really surprising since I am like most people who are looking at this from the outside. It is reasuring to know that we get any of it right considering people like Hersh have inside sources close to all the top level discussions.

To really understand more completely where the NeoCons are at and what they are thinking, go read the whole article by Seymore Hersch. It is lengthy and quite detailed. Well worth the time... - fc

THE NEW YORKER
THE NEXT ACT

Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?

by SEYMOUR M. HERSH

If the Democrats won on November 7th, the Vice-President said, that victory would not stop the Administration from pursuing a military option with Iran. The White House would put "shorteners" on any legislative restrictions, Cheney said, and thus stop Congress from getting in its way.

"They're afraid that Congress is going to vote a binding resolution to stop a hit on Iran, á la Nicaragua in the Contra war," a former senior intelligence official told me.

... Gates's nomination was seen by some Republicans as a clear signal that the Vice-President's influence in the White House could be challenged. The only reason Gates would take the job, after turning down an earlier offer to serve as the new Director of National Intelligence, the former high-level C.I.A. official said, was that "the President's father, Brent Scowcroft, and James Baker" -former aides of the first President Bush- "piled on, and the President finally had to accept adult supervision."

"Iraq is as bad as it looks, and Afghanistan is worse than it looks," Armitage said. "A year ago, the Taliban were fighting us in units of eight to twelve, and now they're sometimes in company-size, and even larger." Bombing Iran and expecting the Iranian public "to rise up" and overthrow the government, as some in the White House believe, Armitage added, "is a fool's errand."

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