Re: [A-List] Gulf Allies Support Goals of New U.S. Strategy in Iraq

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/19/07, Nestor Gorojovsky <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Respuesta a:"Re: [A-List] Gulf Allies Support Goals of New U.S"
> Enviado por:Macdonald Stainsby
> Con fecha:18 Jan 2007, a las 6:02
>
> > Hey Yoshie.
> > I have to beg to differ.
> >
>
> Hey all:
>
> I think that we should all beg to differ in a dialectical way.
>
> What would be the use of Israel for the US if there existed no semi-
> feudal states in the Gulf or if there were only a few, and the main
> ones suffered some particularly astonishing change? Wouldn't Zionism
> become a useless pain in the ass?
>
> In this case, in the hypothetic case of a series of rebellions in
> these states (which are always more likely than a socialist
> revolution in Israel), things would change a lot, wouldn't they?
>
> I am not predicting anything. I am just begging all of us not to call
> a red herring a clam, while we discard a potential clam only because
> it has been repeatedly used as a red herring _in an entirely
> different context_. The Iraqi stalemate and the probability of an
> attack on Iran with unknown consequences in the immediate future are,
> methinks, an important change of context.
>
> I might be wrong, but perhaps Yoshie was thinking in that sense.
> (Yoshie, up to you to belie me.)

That's PRECISELY what I have been thinking!

I used to think that the road to Mecca, i.e. the Gulf states, might go
through Jerusalem, the Gulf states' support for the Israeli occupation
eventually waking up the Arabs and Iranians to the main strategic
asset of imperialism in the Middle East, the asset they need to
reclaim.  But that doesn't seem to be happening.  They need to
squarely confront the problem of the Gulf states first and foremost.
If the Arabs could deprive imperialism of the pro-Washington power
elite in the Gulf states, their hands would be immeasurably
strengthened, putting them into a better position to end the Israeli
occupation.
--
Yoshie
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