Atimes - Lebanon left for dead, "Clean Break" strategy ('96 neocon paper)

The first 2/3 of this article talk about the plight of Lebanon's civilians, then it makes mention of this "clean break" strategy, attached to names like Perle, Feith, and Wurmser. I found that paper an interesting read, especially its mentions of drug and counterfeitting (USD) operations run out of Lebanon. Though all of that could be really outdated now. Any experts care to analyze it?

"Clean Break" - http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm


Atimes article: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HG21Ak01.html

All according to plan
The world has seen this movie before. The seed for understanding the New Middle East war was sown 10 years ago, in 1996. Everything keeps pointing back to the infamous paper "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm", prepared by neo-cons such as Richard Perle, David and Meyrav Wurmser and Douglas Feith for Likud hardliner Benyamin Netanyahu. <1>

The "getting rid of Saddam" part has already been accomplished. The total degradation of the Palestinians is ongoing. The "destabilizing of Syria in Lebanon" took place last year. The next step would be hitting at both Syria and Iran via Lebanon.

Five months ago, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, warned in a public speech that if Israel did not release the Lebanese prisoners it was holding, "we will try to get an Israeli soldier". That's exactly what happened. Israel knew it and had five months to prepare for an invasion and/or the current "pinpoint" bombing of Lebanon's infrastructure - something that any military strategist knows cannot be prepared in a day or two.

The fact that the Bush administration and the Olmert government in tandem blame both Syria and Iran follows the Clean Break plan to the letter. And the plan could have been fine-tuned very recently. Former Likudnik Olmert went to the US in May and Likud chairman Netanyahu followed him in June - and landed in neo-con heaven, participating in a meeting with US Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at a conference organized by the American Enterprise Institute in Colorado.

named Bethesda kept on asking where the policy papers were for the group who had seized control of our government.

It was well before ANYONE had heard of PNAC and the term NeoConservative was known on liberal websites.

Bethesda worked in DC somewheres... and she was right on... these assholes have been planning for a long time.