Posted by Sigismund on March 1, 2009, at 1:18:08
In reply to New York Times, posted by fayeroe on February 28, 2009, at 21:41:22
I heard a man named Baer, the CIA man on whom "Syriana" was based, talking about the US position in the Middle East on TV.
He said that the US could forget about it there.
They had lost the battle for minds.
There the perception had become overwhelming that the US backed regimes and Israel were outposts of some kind of colonialism.
Or something like that.US leaders need to be dealing with the real world, and are (now) heading in the right direction toward it.
With any luck they may rescue the US position.I want to emphasise that this is from a CIA man.
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