Volume 54, Number 15 · October 11, 2007

The Victor?

By Peter W. Galbraith
Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
by Trita Parsi

Yale University Press, 361 pp., $28.00

In his continuing effort to bolster support for the Iraq war, President Bush traveled to Reno, Nevada, on August 28 to speak to the annual convention of the American Legion. He emphatically warned of the Iranian threat should the United States withdraw from Iraq. Said the President, 'For all those who ask whether the fight in Iraq is worth it, imagine an Iraq where militia groups backed by Iran control large parts of the country.'



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