The story of the exposure of Israeli spies in the top offices of the current administration gets weirder as you read it. Here is Juan Cole: "Here is my take on the Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal in the Pentagon.
It is an echo of the one-two punch secretly planned by the pro-Likud faction in the Department of Defense. First, Iraq would be taken out by the United States, and then Iran. David Wurmser, a key member of the group, also wanted Syria included. These pro-Likud intellectuals concluded that 9/11 would give them carte blanche to use the Pentagon as Israel's Gurkha regiment, fighting elective wars on behalf of Tel Aviv (not wars that really needed to be fought, but wars that the Likud coalition thought it would be nice to see fought so as to increase Israel's ability to annex land and act aggressively, especially if someone else's boys did the dying)...."
Check out Cole's latest posts for more, including this quote: "when Tom Clancy and [Gen.] Zinni were running around flogging their book, they were on Deborah Norville. [During the show, Norville] asked Clancy of his impression of Wolfowitz. 'Is he working for our side?' [Clancy] replied."
There is more from Josh Marshall et al on the ties between Iranian dissidents, Israel, and Italian fascists... sounds like a plot dreamt up by Umberto Eco, but remember the old saying "truth is stranger than fiction." So, if things continue to unravel, we may find out that Wolfowitz was fronting for/using several governments in the pursuit of his fevered dreams of middle east conquest.
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10 years ago