Ledeen Unhinged

Michael Ledeen. is the Right's answer to Sy Hersh.
No time for a fisking and it is hardly worth the effort. But here are three points to ponder:

1. Ledeen's villains- Powell, Armitage, Hagel-- are all combat veterans of Vietnam. If they are wary of the Wolfowitz/Ledeen enthusiasms, it may be because they have an awareness of military realities that the hawks lack.

2. Powell had good reasons to oppose the meddling on Iran by Ledeen's friends. The last time the government listened to Ledeen on Iran, we got a whopping big scandal. Powell was in the WHite House when Iran-contra was fomented and then became public.

3. Ledeen wants us to move faster, his buddy Wolfowitz wants the army to be lighter and do more with less. The two positions are incompatible. Rapid pacification requires boots on the ground. That was the course Wolfowitz argued against.

See also this post.