Seymour Hersh "The Redirection" - a couple of questions . . .

[patrice]

General Pace said to the Senate Appropriations Committee today that a weakened Iraqi government emboldens the militias. Hersh and others say 80% of our casualties have been inflicted by the Sunnis. So if the Redirection is meant to weaken the Shias in the region, and, hence the Iraqi government, do the Sunni militias show their increasing strength by killing more Americans or more Shia?

Also:

"Patrick Clawson, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, depicted the Saudis' cooperation with the White House as a significant breakthrough. 'The Saudies understand that if they want the Administration to make a more generous political offer to the Palestinians they have to persuade the Arab states to make a more generous offer to the Israelis.'"

So, someones wants us to believe that the Redirection is supposed to do something(?) positive for Palestine (free it?, maybe, maybe not.)

Hersh goes on in describing the actual mechanisms of the Redirection to say the Saudis are using Asbat al-Ansar, which is a radical Sunni group situated in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, to help the Siniora government in Lebanon resist the influence of Hezbollah, which as I understand it supports a Free Palestine.

So how is that supposed to work? If you split Palestinian support between pro-American/Siniora and pro-Hezbollah factions in Lebanon, where does that leave Palestine?

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/070305fa_fact_hersh

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. I *think* it leaves Palestine

Up for grabs and with the possibility that it will no longer be a nation, and will become just another "sacrifice" in the long war regarding Israeli, US and Saudi interests.

Maybe that's what * meant when he said, "Money Trumps Peace."

otherwise...I really have no answer to your question :shrug: