These guys bug. Why is that they can do only bland description well, whereas their prediction and deeper analysis seems like undergraduate speculation run amok? Just go back and compare this most recent dispatch-- of theirs-- to their pre-war discussion of Iraqi chemical units at bridgeheads, the danger to coalition supply lines, etc. Two different conflicts altogether. And yet it wasn't impossible to read things more accurately, as a host of posters here demonstrated prior to the conflict.
Stratfor: save your money.
Also from Stratfor: the sun rose in the east this morning.
STRATFOR is just a jumped up version of DEBKAFile. It still amounts to a couple of guys in a basement office in Texas somewhere, writing this crap in between gaming sessions of War in the East, Battle of the Bulge, and Risk.
Be Seeing You,
Chris