Craig Unger reports in Vanity Fair magazine that "The same neocon [3] ideologues behind the Iraq war have been using the same tactic -- alliances with shady exiles, dubious intelligence on WMD [4] -- to push for the bombing of Iran. As President Bush ups the pressure on Tehran, is he planning to double his Middle East bet? ... Whatever the administration's master plan may be, parts of it are already under way. ... According to Sam Gardiner [5], by the end of February the United States will have enough forces in place to mount an assault on Iran. That, in the words of former national-security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski [6], would be 'an act of political folly' so severe that 'the era of American preponderance could come to a premature end.' "