QED. Enlist today, so you can stop Imperial Dirka Dirkastan from sailing its aircraft carriers into the
Potomac.
Michael Ledeen, who 25 months ago announced to the world that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, had died — he got this from such an exclusive source that not even Amir Taheri, another neo
-con fantasist, could confirm or deny the story — once again has his hand on the pulse of the Iranian
people (and possibly a mind meld on the Supreme Leader himself). In an op-ed published by the reliably
hard-core Wall Street Journal editorial page today, Ledeen, who, apparently due to apparently
irreconcilable differences with Danielle Pletka, took his “Freedom Chair” at the American Enterprise
Institute (AEI) to the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) front known as the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies (FDD), not only connects last week’s successful Iranian satellite launch with “medieval
Shiite texts” heralding the return of the 12th Imam and the end of days, but also reprises his
certitude (dating back many years now) that the Iranian people are ready to rise in revolt against
their regime.
The argument predictably concludes that “(T)he UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots must not make the mistake of
limiting demands (on Iran) to the nuclear program. A free Iran must be the objective,” and, while the
logic of the whole article is a howl — no doubt adding fodder to the Journal’s news staff’s
contention that the paper doesn’t need a comics section because you can find it on the editorial pages
— what is most interesting is the direct appeal to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the UGGs
Sheepskin Cuff Boots official most likely to argue Ledeen’s position within the administration. So it
seems as if even hard-line neo-cons like Ledeen see Clinton as the link in the new power configuration
that may be most susceptible to their arguments for aggressive “democracy promotion” abroad.
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