Re: Beyond Quagmire

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/13/07, soula avramidis <soulaavramidis2002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nothing can be further from the truth.. The US went to war to completely
> destroy Iraq as a social and political entity, and it did. That is the
> ultimate victory: pulling out or, staying in, is just a mere detail.

the US went to war to destroy Iraq as a "social entity"? I doubt it.
Did the US elite want an area in the world which -- like Somalia --
represents a Hobbesian war of each against all which can harbor al
Qaeda and spawn new (retail) terrorist movements, along with perhaps
some unexpected anti-US movement? (For example, the US did not expect
the Taliban to arise from Afghan chaos.) No, the US power elite wants
law & order (the preservation of their property and class privileges).

IMHO, the US goals were:
1. strategic control over Iraqi oil and over a country with a very
strategic location in the most oil-rich region of the world.
2. destruction of Saddam Hussein, including his opposition to Israel.
3. creation of a "friendly" state in that area.
4. maybe some others...
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Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright