Comments on: Steve Clemons http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/09/27/steve-clemons-5/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:25:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Aren Haich http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/09/27/steve-clemons-5/comment-page-1/#comment-9415 Aren Haich Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:53:41 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/09/27/steve-clemons-5/#comment-9415 The fault with Steve Clemons informative analysis is that he, like many others, views Dick Cheney as a reckless and irresponsible executor of warlike policies. That description fits the president much more than it does his vice president. George Bush style is to come up with a wild feckless notion; and let those around him take care of the details; or come up with arguments to dissuade him from going through with it. In preparing for Iraq war Cheney took care of detail planning. In doing so, he calculated the risks involved and its immediate consequences. He found occupying Iraq to be easy and doable. An attack on Iran, even as envisaged by the most optimistic neocons, is fraught with unforeseen the-day-after effects. There are too many known unknowns and unknown unknowns about an Iran-attack for somebody like Cheney to put his neck out for. As far as US policy on Iran is concerned President Bush originally expressed his desire to bomb Iran. People around him pointed out that it was not as simple as it looked. That the idea must be evaluated and preparations made. Bush administration is right now in the process of preparing and evaluating a war with Iran. The more they evaluate the less doable and feasible this undertaking seems to become. President Bush has already got the wind and is sulking. Cheney does not give away anything of substance about the matter in order to protect his own reputation. Utterances by small time discredited neocons can safely be ignored as far as Iran is concerned. The fault with Steve Clemons informative analysis is that he, like many others, views Dick Cheney as a reckless and irresponsible executor of warlike policies.
That description fits the president much more than it does his vice president.
George Bush style is to come up with a wild feckless notion; and let those around him take care of the details; or come up with arguments to dissuade him from going through with it.

In preparing for Iraq war Cheney took care of detail planning. In doing so, he calculated the risks involved and its immediate consequences. He found occupying Iraq to be easy and doable.

An attack on Iran, even as envisaged by the most optimistic neocons, is fraught with unforeseen the-day-after effects. There are too many known unknowns and unknown unknowns about an Iran-attack for somebody like Cheney to put his neck out for.

As far as US policy on Iran is concerned President Bush originally expressed his desire to bomb Iran. People around him pointed out that it was not as simple as it looked. That the idea must be evaluated and preparations made.
Bush administration is right now in the process of preparing and evaluating a war with Iran. The more they evaluate the less doable and feasible this undertaking seems to become.
President Bush has already got the wind and is sulking. Cheney does not give away anything of substance about the matter in order to protect his own reputation.
Utterances by small time discredited neocons can safely be ignored as far as Iran is concerned.

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