Re: The truth leaks out

[andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Barkley. I think oil was a sine qua non, I mean, they didn't invade Sierra Leone, e.g. (although an equally good or better "humanitarian" case could be made there), presumably because SL has no resources of interest. But I think the motivations also included (1) strategic concerns, dominating the crossroads of Asia, Europe, and Africa, and controlling the sea lanes in the Med and the Gulf, (2) exemplary concerns, smashing a defenseless victim to put others in terror, (3) prestige concerns, showing that we're top dog and a bit crazy, (4) domestic political concerns, Wag the Dog distractions from the economy and the failure to find bin Laden.

 

I don't think there's a lot of long term rational calculation here, and I don't see much in the PCNAC documents. Compared to Kennan and Nitze, these clowns are total pikers. Those guys may have been deeply bad, but they had brains and knowledge and a knowledge of history, their steategic plan was coherent and ultimately justified by events. These people are deepky in the grip of Western movies. jks

Barkley Rosser <rosserjb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

    Heck, I'll get everybody ticked off here also.  I don't think

that oil was the primary motive for the war in Iraq.  It was the

ultimate motive in the sense that this war was the culmination

and followup of the first Gulf War, which was about oil. 

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