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Behind the increasingly shrill rhetoric and saber rattling over Iran’s nuclear ambitions America and Israel are engaged in a secret war against Iran that has echoes of the years when the CIA supported the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union.

This time, the United States and Israel are running covert operations with the help of Kurdish militias and rebel Iranian fighters. For some observers, training and arming Islamic fighters smacks of the days of Soviet rule in Afghanistan.

Then, the Soviet army, which was the second most powerful military in the world, was defeated by Islamic militants, including men like Osama bin Laden.

Now the U.S. military, with Israeli commandos lending a hand, is arming and secretly training a different breed of mujahideen, or Islamic fighters—Kurdish militias with links to ethnic Kurdish communities in Iran and Syria, and fighters from the Iranian Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), which has bases in southern Iraq and has provided the United States with information about the Iranian military and Iran’s nuclear sites.

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In related news, the Iranians have also been operating in the Shiite parts of Iraq showing the local militias how best to fight American troops.

The Iraq war reminds me more and more of Vietnam every day. We are now at the phase where the US decides to attack Vietnam’s next door neighbour, Cambodia. Give it a few more years and the Americans will be making yet another undignified exit from a third world country they thought would be a push over.

It’s an awful pity Bush and his buddies missed out on a tour or two in Vietnam. The lessons learned would have saved them, and the American people, the expensive history lesson they are learning now.