Osirax Redux?

In American Conservative, Cato Institute's Leon Hadar analyzes the calls in Washington for military action against Iran

OSIRAX REDUX? The American Conservative January 15, 2007 Issue

An Israeli strike on Iran would pin the U.S. down in Iraq and resuscitate the neocons.
by Leon Hadar

In the aftermath of the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, pundits recalled another doomed Pentagon chief, Robert McNamara. After all, both were high-profile secretaries of defense who presided over controversial wars and were replaced by pragmatic figures as those wars began to appear unwinnable.

But another historical analogy is more applicable to George W. Bush’s decision to retire Rumsfeld: the firing of Alexander Haig by Ronald Reagan in 1982 against the backdrop of another bloody Middle East crisis, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

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