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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: NightOwl who wrote (108116)7/27/2003 2:14:15 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi NightOwl; Yes, the Stratfor article is rather badly edited, and has a number of badly written parts. Let me try rewriting that sentence you quoted in a way that is consistent with the rest of the article. My additions are in bold:

"The entire war effort [against Iraq] is based on the public's trust of the CIA's portrayal of the ongoing threat from [Saddam giving WMDs to] al Qaeda. If the CIA isn't to be trusted, why should anyone believe that al Qaeda is a threat [, and that they should therefore support possible US actions against Syria or Iran who also might give WMDs to Al Qaeda]?"

Re: "What is this Carl? Some kind of Beltway consulting contractor looking for work? A new political think tank, fishing for pre-election "study" commissions?"

Stratfor has been quoted on this thread many times:
siliconinvestor.com

George Fiedman runs the thing, he's regularly interviewed on CNN:
google.com

-- Carl

P.S. I'm on record as saying that Stratfor is basically a collection of idiots about the Iraq war, but that is primarily because I was certain that there was no way that Bush would make a mistake that big. Stratfor was not big on the Iraq war, they made huge errors in their speculation on what would happen in various countries, but they really weren't a cheerleader for the war. For example, see this interesting transcript:
cnn.com

I would put Stratfor as more tightly connected to the US military than to the civilian Pentagon controllers.
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