The Devil We Know
Category: Documentary
Narrator: Unknown
Tags: Documentary
Robert Baer Narrated by Ted Barker 64Kbps, Former CIA operative Baer (See No Evil) challenges the conventional wisdom regarding Iran in this timely and provocative analysis, arguing that Iran has already half-won its undeclared 30-year war with the United States and is rapidly becoming a superpower. In Baers analysis, Iran has succeeded by using carefully vetted proxies such as Hezbollah and by appealing across the Muslim sectarian divide to Sunni Arabs, and is well on its way to establishing an empire in the Persian Gulf. Baer claims that since Irans dominance in the Middle East is a fait accompli, the United States has no viable choice but to ask for a truce and enter into negotiations prepared to drop sanctions against Iran and accept a partition of Iraq, which is already, and irretrievably, lost. Baers assumptions are often questionablemost tellingly that Iran is now trustworthyand his conclusions premature: he states unequivocally, for example, that the Iranians have annexed the e
