There are only two possible views of Captain Eric H. May, who has been the Iconoclast intelligence correspondent for the last two years.

The first, cogently presented by Marine Corps Major William B. Fox in his article, Captain Courageous: The Infowar of Eric H. May, is that he is brilliant and brave officer of historic consequence. According to this view, Captain May self-mobilized to answer the call of duty and country at a time when such dedication was most needed.

The second is that Captain May is either delusional or deceitful, or both. According to this view, he has consistently written, spoken and acted on the most controversial events and issues of our times in a vainglorious attempt at self aggrandizement.

Captain May, an Army-trained military intelligence officer, should be judged on the basis of his analysis and predictions, which have consistently been considered outspoken, outrageous and outlandish by his former comrades in the military and former colleagues in the media.

Eleven years before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he predicted that Iraq would be another Vietnam, miring U.S. forces in an inconclusive Mideast guerrilla war. He went so far as to warn that U.S. involvement in the Middle East might pull us into the Third World War. Five years of an Iraq fiasco have vindicated his prediction.

Three weeks after the invasion of Iraq, while the mainstream media was pushing the distracting story of Private Jessica Lynch, he vociferously argued that the Battle of Baghdad was occurring, unknown to the American people, who were deliberately kept in the dark. Five years later we regularly see images of Saddam