David B. Shemano wrote:
What evidence do you have that the policies of George Bush are in any way motivated by the domestic economic policies of the Iranian government?
The overarching desire of the neoconservatives, therefore the Bush administration, is "energy security" and "oil price stability" (In the long run). Read that as wresting control of the oil pricing mechanisms from the middle east to the western industrial world. By that very fact alone, the US is interested in the domestic affairs and economic issues of Iran and it's government. Further: How are we going to destabilize, or control, or have any effect whatsoever on Iran, without microscopic knowledge of everything Iranian. That's what spies and intelligence analysts do. Right now, if you read Farsi, the CIA NSA NRO alphabet soup has a job for you reading Iranian newspapers and other more priviliged dispatches to glean every bit of data available about the Iranian economy. That *IS* intelligence work at it's most basic... It's not all "bang bang shoot 'em up, and martinis stirred not shaken (Bond... James Bond.) Leigh http://leighm.net/
