Iran plans

Here's Seymour Hersh's latest in the New Yorker, which I hope will cause an uproar.

It more or less iterates every fear I have of what's going to happen regarding Iran in coming months. Frankly, in his telling, the people lording over US policy come across every bit the evil, cartoonish figures that their worst critics say they are.

If 10% of what Hersh says is true -- the US is actively planning to launch a nuclear strike against Iran, US forces are already conducting ops within Iran meant to destablize the regime, Ahmadinejad is indeed seen as a Hitler-like figure, the crazies really believe striking Tehran will precipitate an uprising, etc. -- then we are truly, deeply fucked. Hersh holds out some hope that a military confrontation might be avoided, but it seems that the people pulling the strings are dead set on regime change, no matter what the cost.