Seymour M. Hersh
The New Yorker
March 5, 2007
In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated the Bush Administration, in both it public diplomacy and its cover operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The “redirection,” as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation with Iran and, in part of the region, propelled it into widening sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
