The claim ( in "JFK TERROR PLOT" http://www.dailykos.com/... that those who plotted the JFK attack have no tie to the Middle East is actually wrong. The NY Sun claims that one of the Guyanese suspects was nabbed while trying to get a visa to go to Iran (http://www.nysun.com/article/55899).
So there may be a connection to the Middle East in the plot after all.
However, even if this allegation is true, that does not necessarily support the apocolypic view that "the bad guys", muslims everywhere, are bent on destroying our way of life, and that the only way to stop them is through force.
Instead, I would argue that the alleged connection has a different lesson for us. The lesson is that our current policy is premised on an ingeniously self-fulfilling prophesy.
Remember the "fly paper" strategy in Iraq? Andrew Sullivan famously argued in 2003 that our Iraq strategy was "beautiful"--attract foreign fighters who hate us to one location, so we can kill 'em all in one fell swoop (http://www.travelbrochuregraphics.com/extra/flypaper.htm).
What Sullivan and some Neocons did not consider, however, was whether the war on/in Iraq might not only act as flypaper for international terrorists--it might help breed new terrorists, and indeed give them a cause around which to organize, to boot.
Now the connection between the Guyanese official and Iran is not knockdown evidence that our actions in Iraq have helped consolodate, motivate, and organize people who--we cannot deny--want to attack us. But the connection is sure suggestive.
As neocons use this link to insinuate that we should now confront Iran militarily, it seems to me this just stands to motivate/consolodate/organize more disparate elements around the world--not less--into joining what is slowly becoming an actual, real, genuine war.
So here's the self-fulfilling prophesy. If you declare war on nobody and everybody (a la War on Terror), eventually somebody is bound to join the other side.