Final meltdown in Iraq and regional mayhem triggered by a US attack on Iran. Is that what this year holds in the Middle East? Will President George W. Bush, trapped between delusion and denial in the Iraqi debacle, try to make it double or quits? The auguries are not good. Given the limited thinking and minimal competence of this administration in its dealings with the region, they never have been.
When the US and its loyal British ally, Tony Blair, decided to invade Iraq in 2003, certain consequences were always clear, except to those driving the strategy.
