Written by Chris Floyd
Here's the upshot of Sy Hersh's latest piece in the New Yorker: George W. Bush is working with, paying, arming and training -- directly and by proxy -- violent terrorist groups in league with Osama bin Laden. Just as the Bush Faction has replicated every mistake, misdeed and miscalculation of the Vietnam quagmire in Iraq, so too the "grand strategy" of the "War on Terror " replicates the worst strategic mistake of the last quarter of the 20th century: arming and training violent, obscurantist Islamic militias -- in effect, creating (with Saudi and Pakistani partners) the global jihad movement as an effective force -- in the vain and frankly stupid hope that these groups could be manipulated into serving American policy and then safely set aside where their usefulness was through. More...
