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**maonnjtip** · 07-22-2011, 06:00 PM

Sean, I have to concur (and you KNOW that it does not make me smile to do so) that Al Jazeera is a good source of real news in the region, and yes, their opinion pieces are Islamocentric, sometimes plain Islamis, but no kidding. Robert Baer is an intersting character, and not usually this far out. He wrote a book about our relationship with Iran, in which he lays out some rather wild ideas about how to control Teheran. My fave was that the US should just, one day, get out of Iraq. His analysis is that Iran would be left with such a steming pile of strife next door to it, that it would confound Teheran and force the Revolutionary Guards to overtly get involved, something that Iran has hated doing since the shahs (Shahs? Shah's?).
So the wild prediction is not terribly surprising BUT I also do not see Israel sharing war plans with anybody at any level. Hell, they allegedly attacked a US ship (USS Liberty) when they thought that it was getting intelligence on their movements during the 1967 War, and my very limited experience with the IDF has shown them to be a VERY colse hold military culture. Bottom line, Mr Baer likely has a new book in the owrks, and needs to get his name out there again.

07-22-2011, 06:00 PM	#10
maonnjtip Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 449 Senior Member	Sean, I have to concur (and you KNOW that it does not make me smile to do so) that Al Jazeera is a good source of real news in the region, and yes, their opinion pieces are Islamocentric, sometimes plain Islamis, but no kidding. Robert Baer is an intersting character, and not usually this far out. He wrote a book about our relationship with Iran, in which he lays out some rather wild ideas about how to control Teheran. My fave was that the US should just, one day, get out of Iraq. His analysis is that Iran would be left with such a steming pile of strife next door to it, that it would confound Teheran and force the Revolutionary Guards to overtly get involved, something that Iran has hated doing since the shahs (Shahs? Shah's?). So the wild prediction is not terribly surprising BUT I also do not see Israel sharing war plans with anybody at any level. Hell, they allegedly attacked a US ship (USS Liberty) when they thought that it was getting intelligence on their movements during the 1967 War, and my very limited experience with the IDF has shown them to be a VERY colse hold military culture. Bottom line, Mr Baer likely has a new book in the owrks, and needs to get his name out there again.
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