(Koppel Op-ed Piece From NY Times) Iran Rising: Look What Democratic Reform Dragged In

Thanks to For What It's Worth for posting the subscriber-only article because he felt everyone should be able to read it since it's important (Ted Koppel would know; the man helped to create "Nightline" with his Iran coverage the first time we were there back in the '70s).

The United States is already at war with Iran; but for the time being the battle is being fought through surrogates.

That message was conveyed to me recently by a senior Jordanian intelligence official at his office in Amman. He spoke on the condition of anonymity, reflecting gloomily on the failure of the Bush administration's various policies in the region.

He reserved his greatest contempt for the policy of encouraging democratic reform. "For the Islamic fundamentalists, democratic reform is like toilet paper," he said. "You use it once and then you throw it away."

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