My friend writes: On a recent visit to Washington, I encountered a Central Asian diplomat for the second time in a couple of months. He isn’t stationed in Washington, so I asked why he was spending so much time here. “It’s sensitive,” he said, “but your Department of Defense is very eager to secure a lease on a naval station we have on the Caspian Sea. I think they want to use it to launch an amphibious assault on Iran.” He then started laughing at the total absurdity of the notion. However, I did not laugh. That is precisely what Wolfowitz, Feith, Cambone and company are up to. As Seymour Hersh details in his latest contribution (1), planning for a military assault on Iran is now at a feverish pitch, and a multipronged assault, including attacks from new U.S. bases in Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iraq, is a critical element.
See The New Yorker, Jan. 24 & 31, 2005
The Annals of National Security
THE COMING WARS
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
What the Pentagon can now do in secret.
