Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Attacking Iran, and Iran attacking us, Part Deux

Which should actually read the other way around.
We have been very pre-occupied with pre-empting the Iranians developing either a nuclear weapon or the tools to do so, and the Iranian response to this.

Segway to the Panshir Valley, Afghanistan September 9th, 2001. Two newsreporters appear for a schedualed interview with Ahmed Shah Massoud
Massoud.jpg
longtime mujahid, american ally and head of the Northern Alliance which stills resists the Taliban though dramatically outnumbered.. They blow themselves up along with him, in what appears to be an isolated act to end Northen Alliance resistance. Two days later the world finds out differently.

Two can play the pre-emption game

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