The most ironic ship-jumper is Chalabi. He was a creature of the NeoCons, their pet Iraqi Quisling. And now he's making nice with Shiite Ayatollahs, and not just the Iraqi ones, but the Iranian clerics, too.
He wants to use them the same way he used Cheney et al. If he gets their blessing, he will get his dream come true. His selling point to them is that he is the "vital link" between both worlds, that of the Shia and that of the US, the traditional and the modern. Anyone who trusts him, though, is foolish--he speaks well, but methinks he doth smile too much. But see below for the alternative.
It's like when Dean and Haldeman abandoned Nixon.
No. If that were som, we would have many more details. Chalabi is either the devil, or the true Machiavellian Prince incarnate, who sees the "occasion," his opportunity for the great glory of leading his country out of the wilderness into unity and modernity. If the latter, my hat is off to him, though, as Machiavelli says, he is playing a game with very high stakes that is usually fatal to those who play. |
