Stuff like this (hat tip to Bruce Prescott) is horrifying. It’s like a continued, intensified sequel to the book I’m in the process of reading, Overthrow by Stephen Kinser. NPR did an interview with him (On Terri Gross’s Fresh Air), which caused me to pick the book up a few times in the bookstore while browsing, and I eventually bought it when I ordered House of War (the James Carroll book about the Pentagon). Overthrow traces the planning and thinking behind the variour “interventions” of the United States in the affairs of foreign countries who have ended up crossing some American business interests, and how the U.S. then proceeds to start various campaigns of discrediting and accusations of “Communist” (which was the “favorite” after the Cold War began. Now it’s “terrorists”.

The neocons’ next war | Salon
By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.

On a lighter note, I saw the Saturday Night Live Bush character talking about how “The main thing to remember here is: it’s been six months, and there hasn’t been another hurrircane! The hurricanes are on the run. ” I had a nice chuckle at that one.