Reply #29: and Mr. Perle. See, "A Clean Break" [View All]

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One should look at the objectives set out in Perle and Wurmser's 1997 "A Clean Break: A Strategy for Securing the Realm", written by American neocons for Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. I don't think there's a snowball's chance in Hell that it's going to be accomplished, now.

A conquest of Iran was the ultimate goal. The exact sequencing was to take down Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and finally Iran. http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm Instead, it Looks like they got bogged down at step one-and-a-half of that four-step agenda. While Saddam was removed and Hezbollah bombed, the cost was a loss of American AND Israeli military credibility and, with that loss, the power of deterrence. The power to deter, as any professional military officer or diplomat will tell you, is the most important element of maintaining stability essential to dominance by a leading power. Destabilization favors contenders, not the dominant states.

The plan was packaged for Netanyahu as a model for transforming Israel, itself, into a Right-wing regional empire. Israeli is far more vulnerable now than it was before it demonstrated its very real limitations in Lebanon. Same for the U.S. in Iraq.

Mission failed. Now comes the whirlwind.


Mark