Washington Monthly: Practice to Deceive

Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan.



In their view, invasion of Iraq was not merely, or even primarily, about getting rid of Saddam Hussein. Nor was it really about weapons of mass destruction, though their elimination was an important benefit. Rather, the administration sees the invasion as only the first move in a wider effort to reorder the power structure of the entire Middle East.