re: #622 David Simon

You remind me of the pollyannish dupes who mourned the lost “opportunity” when Iran was initially cooperative shortly after the rout of the Taliban. Iran was helpful during the Bonn Conference because it had an interest in not having a failed state on its eastern border, not because it wanted rapprochement with the West.

Yeah, and we have seen how well the war against the Taliban has succeded without the cooperation of the Iranians. Not!

So it was better to alienate Iran and have their active participation against the coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan than try to enlist their participation. Brilliant strategy.

People on this board are happy to use WWII as an example for many things… well, maybe I should use the USA alliance with Russia against Germany in WWII as an example in this case.