[lbo-talk] Iraq buddies up with Iran; PM lays wreath on Khomeini's tomb

[Jim Devine]

> [gosh, was this what Perle, Hitchens & Co. had in
> mind?]
> 
> Financial Times - July 19, 2005
> 
> Iraqi delegation cements ties with Iran
> By Gareth Smyth in Tehran
> 
> A high-level Iraqi delegation led by Ibrahim
> al-Jaafari, prime
> minister, headed home yesterday from Iran after
> opening what both
> sides see as a new era in their relations.

Chris Doss writes:  
> So much for the "Quisling government" paradigm.

that's the conflict I talked about earlier. If the US elite wants to
attain its goals -- which does not include an Iraq/Iran alliance -- it
needs to have popular legitimacy of the Iraqi government, i.e.,
something much more than a Quisling. But a non-Quisling does stuff
like allying with Iran...
-- 
Jim Devine
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" -- Richard Feynman