I'm really beginning to seriously believe that this country suffers from a permanent state of amnesia. A few days back, The Washington Post's Robin Wright declared that our relationship with Iran was the equivalent of a new Cold War. Greg D replies:
I don't know precisely when or how a middle-ranking power like Iran--rivaled in its immediate neighborhood alone by the likes of Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan--has somehow metamorphosed into America's mega-foe thereby presenting us with a full-blown "Cold War II" (I kid you not, do click through the link), but apparently among a certain bien pensant Beltway set this is what passes for foreign policy deep-think these days...
And then there is the irony of course, that here we are as the "Green Curtain" ominously descends (ribald fare, eh?), and we're busily helping prop up some of the key actors draping said terrifying curtain through the region. After all, who are Iran's major clients in Iraq, at the end of the day? Mahdi militia, you scream?!? Well no, more accurately, Abdelaziz al-Hakim's SCIRI and Maliki's Da'wa. Our friends of course. So even if this were Cold War II, a hilariously hyperbolic claim, we'd be botching the execution like naive imbeciles. Someone wake me up when this nightmare ends, please.
To compare what we face today to the Cold War is to forget what the Cold War was.
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