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Re: Beyond Quagmire

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: 

I agree with Jim, but we can't totally discount a possibility that,
for at least some of the power elite involved in selling the war to
the American public, (2) trumped everything else and even "to
completely destroy Iraq as a social and political entity" was an
acceptable means for that purpose and still is...

.

...and that power elite will be living in their protected enclaves like
Dubai while the enraged muslim populations of the world continue to
attack and kill westerners worldwide, (but perhaps rolling back to just
the middle east after a hundred years or so...) as a result of the
elite's actions in the region.

To this: "...though most in Washington probably had more rational
economic and geopolitical goals in mind."

All I can say is:
They ARE rational according to the immediate demand of their populace
that the petro-based lifestyle not end in THEIR lifetime.

Leigh

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