Friday, April 21, 2006

-Michael Ledeen's dream, Mohamad ElBaradei's nightmare

WorkingForChange-Michael Ledeen's dream,�Mohamad ElBaradei's nightmare:

"Is the run up to intervention in Iran deja vu all over again?

It had damn well better not be!

The drumbeat in some Washington foreign policy circles for 'regime change' in Iran has striking similarities to the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and is being led by some of the usual suspects -- like the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Ledeen.

Though not well-known outside of Washington, Ledeen's 'views virtually define the stark departure from American foreign policy philosophy that existed before the tragedy of Sep. 11, 2001,' Pacific News Service's William Beeman commented in May 2003.

'He basically believes that violence in the service of the spread of democracy is America's manifest destiny. Consequently, he has become the philosophical legitimator of the American occupation of Iraq.' "

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