RE: [A-List] US imperialism: Iraq

["Mark Jones" <markjones011@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stan wrote:
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> This nutty plan might work, if only because Iraq's armed forces are in
> disarray

Interesting insights as ever. But the real house-to-house fight is going on
in the UN Security Council right now where  the French, Russians, Chinese
and others have not caved in when the script said they oughta. I'd say
Saddam's defences in depth begin in the outskirts of Manhattan, not Baghdad,
and so far they are holding up pretty good.

I have a lot to say about this and about just why the Russians have
surprised some people by their refusal to bend over an drop their pants when
told to (not me though because I said all along they wouldn't, and it's not
just because the comprador clique of sell-out oligarchs who run the Kremlin
have suddenly found a real bone of contention with the US because of
Lukoil's Iraq oilfields. No, it's deeper than that.)


But I'm biding my time. I personally don't think that Bush can go it alone
except on one condition and cannot get his UN mandate to invade either,
because the French, China, Russia and after December, Germany too which
becomes a Security Council member, won't agree to do it. They won't agree to
do it because US imperialism is now too weak, vulnerable and exposed to make
its writ run even among its allies. This is therefore a true moment of truth
in the history of US world hegemony. Hold your breath, folks.

The one condition on which Bush will do it? Because he decides to rewrite
the political map not only of the Middle East but of the whole world, and to
rip up the entire post-1945 world order. He hasn't decided to do that yet,
because the consequences will be awesome, cataclysmic, well, just call it
WW3 for short (coming our way any time now).   Therefore the Bush regime
wants to give its own allies, satraps and colonies one last chance to
knuckle down voluntarily before the shooting war really begins. The Bushies
are already amazed, disillusioned and fed up that yelling doesn't work,
threatening nukes doesn't work, holding a gun to British and German heads
doesn't work, that Tony Blair is actually good ole Perfidious Albion reborn,
tricky, duplicitous and devious and by far his worst enemy, the one who is
inside the tent pissing on the canteen, the real speedbump on the road to
war which is what the Brits have become-- a sleeping secret policeman in
cahoots with Chirac and Putin and desperate to block Bush. What is WRONG
with these people, don't they know this is a GUN at their heads and Bush is
NOT kidding? Tsk, tsk, evidently they just don't believe he'll do it, which
is why in the end he may have to. Because if Bush doesn't face off his
allies now (and they are his real enemies, not the cheap gangster in
Baghdad) then it's the big Finito to the American Empire; no war=dollar
collapse=slump=the end.

Mark