The shift in official policy has thrilled former members of the
cabal. To them, the war in Lebanon represents the final step in
their plan to turn Iran into the next Iraq. Ledeen, writing in the
National Review on July 13th, could hardly restrain
himself. "Faster, please," he urged the White House, arguing that
the war should now be taken over by the U.S. military and expanded
across the entire region. "The only way we are going to win this
war is to bring down those regimes in Tehran and Damascus, and they
are not going to fall as a result of fighting between their
terrorist proxies in Gaza and Lebanon on the one hand, and Israel
on the other. Only the United States can accomplish it," he
concluded. "There is no other way."

James Bamford echo's Rattle's recent posts in Rolling Stone.