There's a growing consensus even among people who've supported Israel in the past that settling the imbroglio has moved to the center of American foreign policy needs. Perceptions are changing, I think, though maybe you're right that at this point it would be political suicide to be hard on Israel.
I'm going to post a disturbing article to you in a little while. Here's an excerpt:
~President Bush's case against Saddam Hussein, outlined in a televised address to the nation on Monday night, relied on a slanted and sometimes entirely false reading of the available US intelligence, government officials and analysts claimed yesterday.
~Officials in the CIA, FBI and Department Of Energy are being put under intense pressure to produce reports which back the administration's line, the Guardian has learned. In response, some are complying, some are resisting and some are choosing to remain silent.
"Basically, cooked information is working its way into high-level pronouncements and there's a lot of unhappiness about it in intelligence, especially among analysts at the CIA," said Vincent Cannistraro, the CIA's former head of counter-intelligence.~ |
