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Looking for clues...

I'm convinced that there's a way of getting through to you
Ooh I'm looking for clues.

-Robert Palmer

It seems life is all about "looking for clues," as the late singer/songwriter Robert Palmer suggests.

Here's one: Reports indicate that Iranian diplomats were detained by US forces in Iraq. Notice that this allegedly "validates" the US government's assertion that the Iranians are "meddling" in Iraq.

Let me get this straight: The US overthrows the Iraq government, admittedly "bad guys." In so doing, ancient Shia/Sunni rivalries are unleashed, like a Pandora's Box. Neighboring Iran, a Shia nation largely, takes an interest in Iraq and especially their Shia population. Pretty much all the nations in the Middle East are unnatural "kluge" states, lines drawn in the sand by exiting Western colonials, largely post WWII. Iran and Iraq were at war not all that long ago.

Most observers of this fact set would be surprised if Iran wasn't meddling in Iraq. The unnamed "US official" simply stated the obvious.

Why did they do this? We can't, of course, know, but we shouldn't be surprised if this sort of revelation is another brick in the wall for the US continuing its presence in the Iraq quagmire, and perhaps getting more aggressive with Iran. Never mind that labeling Iran a "meddler" is the pot calling the kettle black.

This is an additional clue, and another cliche: It takes one (a meddler) to know one.

-Robert Capozzi

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