US' exit strategy from Iraq is going nowhere

[Iceburg]

By Tom McGurk
Just over three years on from the destruction of New York's World Trade Center, might we try this morning a little inventory of the progress of the `war on terrorism'.

Apart from a small area around Kabul, most of Afghanistan has returned to the control of indigenous warlords.Heroin production has increased by an estimated 400 per cent since the Taliban was ousted. However, they too are making a significant return in the east of the country.
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Having already bombed the Iraqis back into the stone age, to now attempt bombing them back into the democratic age will be a remarkable trick - even for the Pentagon's planners.

For even in the exotica represented by American foreign policy scenarios, bombing and shooting the voters to make them vote will be an interesting first.

And if the election exit strategy fails, what then? Despite Bush's election rhetoric ,Washington is already concentrating on a foreign policy damage limitation scenario in relation to Iraq. Both the neo-cons and their new doctrine of pre-emptive strike are in ruins.


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Forget the rhetoric. America will have no control over what it leaves behind when, inevitably, it will leave, and Iraq will potentially become a much more dangerous place then ever it was under Saddam.

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[NYCGirl]

1. There's an exit strategy?! Who knew? (eom)

NT

[Karenina]

5. Yeah right.

And leave behind those 14 brand-new *pork built bases. :eyes:

[scarletwoman]

2. Stark closing paragraphs:

The bitter lesson in all of this is that George W Bush has done infinitely more to undermine world peace than anything Osama bin Laden has done to date.

And in this, the growing struggle between the forces of anti modernist, nihilistic fundamentalism and imperial market totalitarianism, we have all simply become spectators to our own fate.

Ouch. Hard truth...

sw

[gratuitous]

4. Hard truth, but even harder truth

Is that this state of affairs is precisely what the Bush administration wants! They know as well as anyone what a terrible situation prevails in Iraq -- and in one of the most startling instances of this group actually telling the truth, they say that everything is going according to plan. And as far as they're concerned, it is! Money is being funneled out of the Treasury directly into the overstuffed pockets of Bush campaign backers. Control of the oil reserves has passed to Bush's capitalist cronies. So a few thousand people have died; so what? It's not like it's anybody they're related to or care about.

[sweetheart]

3. Their objective is an extremist islamic state

... and they are well on the way to creating one, by formenting this
civil war by 'accident'. It is all geopolitical surrounding of
russia veiled in a bundle of lies.


...<snip>
So: The Iranian foreign ministry cooperates closely with the Karzai
government in Kabul. That is the same Karzai government that was
installed by top US operative Zalmay Khalilzad! <7>

Emperor's Clothes charges that the NATO-arranged cooperation of
Muslim extremists in Afghanistan and Iran is aimed at secular
states in the region, especially Russia. And meanwhile our
so-called antiwar leaders babble on about pipeline politics and
ignore the creation of a Muslim extremist juggernaut, from Saudi
Arabia to Afghanistan, pointed like a spear direct at the heart of
Muslim Central Asia.


http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/moore3.htm