Incoherency in re Iran

Forgive the post title... but it is applicable. As Harold Meyerson points out today, we have "achieved new depths of senselessness" in our Middle Eastern policy. On the one hand, we're trying to enlist "our longtime Sunni allies in the region -- Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt in particular -- as a buffer against the spreading influence of Shiite Iran within Iraq and across the Middle East. Inside Iraq, meanwhile, we have cast our lot with the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a sectarian Shiite with long-standing ties to Iran, and hedged our bet by cultivating the support of another Shiite leader, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, who is even closer to Iran."

Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds, or, working against ourselves: which makes the best subtitle?

Whatever, we can hardly blame people for wondering what the hell we think we're up to.

I fear the answer is that we stopped thinking long ago.