[mvonfr]

Yeah, since 9/11 Stratfor has been taken over ...

Yes, they are not up to the task anymore. Maybe reading this FR thread would help them a bit.

Feedback from Stratfor's internal forum (which is nowhere near FR or even alt.politics in terms of quality), but perhaps is read by the Stratfor staff:

<<There is a fairly long discussion thread of this article on the Free Republic forum.

General sense is that Stratfor seriously damaged its credibility with this piece.>>

Yeah, no kidding! Talk about getting grilled over the coals, take a look at THIS lambasting:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/604258/posts

[spycatcher]

Thanks, good post. I have a Stratfor subscription and couldn't even find an email for anything other than the webmaster. I'm starting to think they're as lame an operation as our Clinton CIA holdovers are. And they used to have brilliant analysis with spot on predictions. Not that they have to be perfect every time, but this article seems like a wishlist from the PLO propaganda dept, and other recent articles have been pretty poor compared to the last several years.

They probably hired a bunch of new interns after 9/11 to handle the increased workload and they aren't up to the task. The recent subscription push in exchange for inferior analysis has damaged years of goodwill and respect.