The animating idea behind America’s machinations in the region is to romance the “moderate” Sunni jihadists, use them as an instrument in the ongoing regime-change campaign against Iran, and compete for Al Qaeda’s base of support. The big problem of this too-clever-by-half grand strategy – which bears all the hallmarks of a classic neoconservative delusion – is that it invariably brings us into the position of supporting the very people we are supposedly fighting, the vaunted “terrorists” of Al Qaeda, against whom we launched the Global War on Terrorism in the first place.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:11:50 +0000