I’ve asked you, the TPM readership, for many things — to give contributions, to take surveys, and certainly other things I can’t remember. But this is the greatest request. Someone … someone out there, I have to imagine, and probably it will be someone with connections in the New York theater world, where I’m told the site has a few fans, can secure me prime seats at the premier of the Iraq regime change opera, which I assume will debut sometime toward the end of this decade, probably in New York but perhaps on the continent.
At an earlier point, we might have imagined it would be Wagnerian. But I’m thinking more Verdi or actually Mozart, some sort of Opera Buffa, though perhaps the better question is whether Paul Sorvino is cast as Ahmed Chalabi or Richard Perle.
Who could miss the duet between Chalabi and Ali Khamenei in which the dark secret is revealed or Richard Perle’s haunting, despairing aria at the beginning of the final act, in which this hawk of hawks, friend of Israel, swordsman against terror, and deacon in the high church of moral clarity confronts the shattering truth that he’s played the cat’s paw for what the Defense Intelligence Agency, according to this just-released article from Newsday, has determined was (horribile dictu!) actually a front for Iranian intelligence.
(Yes, the DIA, says Newsday, has concluded that the INC’s ‘Information Collection Program’ was an Iranian front.)
Even now, I can almost feel myself raising a tissue to my eye for his moment of bleak sorrow. La Donna e Mobile, indeed!
