Re: CFR on civil war in Iraq
Leigh Meyers wrote:
Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >
so, is your contention that civil war is the neocon plan B? i admit that i am way behind in conversations on this list, so i don’t have the history.
but if i read you right, you are basically saying that the neocons are cynical power-grabbers dressed up as democracy-promoting ideologues. is that a fair read?
BINGO!
But that’s not terribly controversial. What is controversial is Leigh’s demented assertion that the US wants civil war in Iraq, and that this strategy was decided upon by the Council on Foreign Relations. The whole point of the Biddle article in Foreign Affairs http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060301faessay85201-p0/stephen-biddle/seeing-baghdad-thinking-saigon.html is avoiding civil war, not promoting it.
Doug