Plan B
Think Progress has an item on Jim Hoagland's May 20 column in the Washington Post titled "Beyond Saber Rattling." In his description of a potential Bush-Cheney administration "Plan B" for Iraq, Hoagland writes about,
"[...]strong-arming the admittedly faltering government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki out of office and replacing Maliki with a U.S.-anointed Iraqi savior.
Arab allies are urging such a course on Bush and would not object to U.S. military action against Iran."
I find this an alarmingly irresponsible assertion. For this assertion to be at all credible, readers should have the specific knowledge of which Arab allies are urging such a course. Without that specific knowledge enough readers may be led to believe that actually implementing such a course would be multilateral, possibly leading to support in Congress and the electorate, only to be greeted by rounds of condemnation among the Arab establishment and obligatory conspiracy theories revolving around the Zionist Entity and its manipulation of US foreign policy should such insanity become policy.




