1.0 link 3951 <![CDATA[The Shiite Paradox]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-dreyfuss/the-shiite-paradox_b_3951.html Recent news from Iraq has engendered an inescapable, and exquisite, paradox for the neoconservative backers of the war in Iraq. Happily I want to draw it out.

Astonishingly, the very Iraqi government whose supposed legitimacy the neocons want Americans to support has now made a deal with the neoconservatives’ worst devil, the ayatollahs’ regime in Iran. Specifically, the Iraqi defense minister made a high profile visit to Teheran last week, during which he concluded a deal with the mullahs. According...

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