Iran: “The final destination on this downhill track...”
Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski:
If the United States continues to be bogged down in a protracted bloody involvement in Iraq, the final destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam at large.Thanks and have a nice day.A plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks; followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure; then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on Iran; culminating in a "defensive" U.S. military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
They showed that on the News Hour last night. I’d been reading what Digby and others had been writing about Iran and thinking (hoping?) that they were a little overwrought. When I heard Brzezinski, I stopped hoping.