A New Con Game

As events unfold in Lebanon, is it just me or are we witnessing a play script eerily similar to that which led to the run-up to the disastrous invasion of Iraq? At this point we have the French and US at loggerheads at the UN over a resolution to avoid a wider war because the Whitehouse really doesn’t want to avoid a war. Meanwhile, another Secretary of State appears to be out of the loop with the neoconservative wing of the Whitehouse, who are clearly doing everything in their power to set her up for failure. This is a troubling pattern by the Whitehouse: stick a minority on stage to face the cameras and negotiate, like Powell or Rice, while secretly behind the curtain undercutting them to snatch war from the jaws of peace. The final denouement of the charade comes in the form of a hook from stage left to yank the sacrificial victim offstage (Condi will be history soon, unless she sells what little is left of her soul to the devil). I guess they don’t call them the necons for nothin’ – they’re always coming up with a new con to game us into another war.