Neocons Believed Iraqi Shiites Would Force Hezbollah to Befriend Israel

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"They believed in this harebrained scheme, essentially, that the Jordanians and the Turks would be dominant in the new Saddam Hussein-less Iraq and that even though it is a supermajority Shiite Arab country, those Shiites, they just love being told what to do by either— their original plan was the Hashemite king, the cousin of the King of Jordan, and then they threw that out and it was the guy who sold them this line that this was possible in the first place, an Iraqi exile you might remember from that time, Ahmed Chalabi."

Horton explained the neoconservative Clean Break Doctrine assumed post-Saddam Iraqi Shiites would be controlled by Jordan's Hashemite monarchy and turn Hezbollah against Iran to befriend Israel. He described this as a 'harebrained scheme' based on Ahmed Chalabi's promises that instead empowered Iran.