Iran No Longer Has a Pentagon Friend?

The U.S. military unveiled the first round of evidence of Iran's complicity in supplying Iraqi insurgents with sophisticated explosive devices and weaponry. An unnamed military explosive expert and a defense intelligence official, along with Coalition Spokesman Major General Bill Caldwell presented the evidence....'Evidence of Iran supplying weapons, technical expertise to Iraqi insurgents', The Fourth Rail, 2/12/2007

One of the amazing facts of the weak-kneed domestic support of the Iraq war effort, not to mention the war on terror, is how few working general officers in the US military were willing to acknowledge that the major source of IEDs, training, and other military assistance for the Iraqi insurgents was Iran. The Fourth Rail's report, which should be front page news, isn't. Instead, it has to be dredged out with the assistance of Formerspook and other bloggers. One can understand why the surrender team on Capitol Hill wouldn't want to know about this, but a general officer whose career is tied up in the actions of the United States military? Generally, in corporate, institutional, or other organizational affairs, supporting evidence for action is brought forward like the soloist in a piano concerto. You wouldn't hide Peter Serkin behind the double basses. Fortunately, the story is out there. Whatever wall kept the Pentagon from reporting this truth, backed up with intensive investigation and documentation, has come down. Walls do come down, mythology to the contrary. And Fox has picked the story up. The NY Sun and The Washington Times have picked it up. That's a start. But it took four years! This is the price of a partisan press with near-monopoly control on what we find through normal channels. Given the stakes, it's too high. Maybe what's needed instead of a Net Neutrality Act is a Network and Newspaper Neutrality Act.

Luther