Been reading Seymour Hersh's
fine recent New Yorker piece on the upcoming Phase II of the Iraq war. To my delight and
amusement, I find that the Israel lobby has already laid
out the line for the new approach -- in characteristically
arrogant terms. Hersh quotes Patrick Clawson, of the Washington Institute
for Near East Policy:
“We’'re not planning to diminish the war.... We just want to change the mix of the forces doing the fighting .... We’'re in the middle of a seven-year slog in Iraq....”"We are not planning," Patrick? Who is this "we"? Are you and your WINEP colleagues in the chain of command now? I suppose you might be forgiven for thinking so.
