Played

No other word can describe the situation better if this is true. If it is true, then the United States was played like a violin by the Islamic Republic of Iran. And don't even talk to me about size. At the very least, George Tenet and much of the top level of the CIA needs to be fired. Heads need to roll, and in some cases it should be literal. This is perhaps the greatest intelligence fiasco since what befell the Germans in WW2. Certainly on par with the intelligence disaster that left Israel vulnerable during the Yom Kippur War. A total review of US intelligence where Iran might be involved is called for.

One thing is for sure, though, and that is Iran needs to be dealt with, and soon. It is entirely possibly that by eliminating Saddam Hussein's regime the US has accomplished a long held goal for the Iranian Mullahs. The possibility that Iran might greatly benefit from this is intolerable. It is time to fight back. We need to start sneaking shipments of weapons into Iran, and send in Green Berets to help train an Iranian resistance. The Mullahs are greatly hated, it is time to make use of that hatred by the people of Iran. So far all internal attempts to remove the Mullahs from power have failed. That needs to change, and now. At the very least, Iran needs to be neutralized by the time elections are being held in Iraq. And preferably, before elections are held in the US as well. The time to act is now. Actually, we should have acted back in 1979, but that is the past, which is now only history. Hopefully we can manage to avoid adding similar history to the books in the coming days.