“Soviet leaders during the cold war never had to deal with pesky capitalists when they rolled tanks into other countries. In today’s Russia, Mr. Putin may sit on gushers of oil money and he has co-opted the business class to his authoritarian rule, but he must still live with Adam Smith’s invisible hand….

Will the oligarchs who rely on Western markets and access to the West still go along with Putin and his militant nationalism? If the West has a fifth column inside Russia, the oligarchs are it. They are the market forces best able to stand up to Russia’s military force….”

Is American naivety about their own economic incompetence and isolationism, even from other parts of the “West”, so severe? Is it something in the air or the water?

McGovern said that the forgeries were so sloppy that they would throw-off intelligence agencies because Mossad’s work is usually flawless. So, his hunch was that Mossad did a deliberately sloppy job to ensure that Israel wasn’t fingered as the source of the Niger uranium forgeries.

I heard McGovern talk about this a few years ago — he could have changed his mind since, or I could be remembering what he said incorrectly, but I think that what I’ve relayed is pretty accurate.

@ gandhi: lol! You said “Ledeen is on shaky ground and could well be on his way to a prison cell.” Not if the Anti-War movement has anything to say about it! Nope, he’s as snug as a bug in a rug…and will always be, until the revolution begins that is! XD

The Iraq experiment looks destined for failure, and many former supporters are now queuing up to distance themselves from the project. Voices which once were stilled are now apt to talk. Ledeen is on shaky ground and could well be on his way to a prison cell. If so, all I can say is:

“Faster, please.”