What's behind the curtain?...

[stillcool]

Something's happening here...and what it is ain't exactly clear...

The US's geopolitical nightmare
By F William Engdahl

The creation by Bush and Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and company of a geopolitical nightmare is also the backdrop to comprehend the dramatic political shift within the US establishment in the past six months, away from the Bush presidency. Simply put: Bush and Cheney and their band of neo-conservative war hawks, with their special relationship to the capacities of Israel in Iraq and across the Mideast, were given a chance.

All threads are being carefully woven, evidently by a re-emerging realist faction, into a tapestry that will likely spell impeachment, perhaps also of the vice president, the real power behind this presidency.

In this context, the recent diplomatic insult from Bush to visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao is doubly disastrous for the US foreign position. Bush acted on a script written by the anti-China neo-conservatives, deliberately to insult and humiliate Hu at the White House.Then came the playing of the Chinese national anthem for Hu, which was introduced as the anthem for the Republic of China - Taiwan. It was no slip-up by the professional White House protocol people. It was a deliberate effort to humiliate the Chinese leader. Hu, though, didn't waste time or tears over the Bush affront. He immediately went to Saudi Arabia for a three-day state visit where he signed trade, defense and security agreements. This is no small slap in the face to Washington by the traditionally "loyal" Saudi royal house.

In the space of 12 months, Russia and China have managed to move the pieces on the geopolitical chess board of Eurasia away from what had been an overwhelming US strategic advantage, to the opposite, where the US is increasingly isolated. It's potentially the greatest strategic defeat for the US power projection of the post-World War II period. This is also the strategic background to the re-emergence of the so-called realist faction in US policy.

.....way more at link...

F William Engdahl is the author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, Pluto Press Ltd. He may be contacted at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.


http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HE09Ad01.html

[Dunvegan]

1. Asia Times is an excellent source. And I'm loving this article.

[stillcool]

2. It's loaded...isn't it?

....makes me hope I'll be around long enough to read all the books that will be coming out of this when all is said and done! Always amazes me how a little thoughtful logical reasoning restores my faith in humanity. Albeit temporarily...

[Dunvegan]

3. Things are breaking open fast....I'll bet there are books waiting...

...that just couldn't be printed until this "perfect storm" hit the Administration.

Those will be the first.

Yes...incredibly well-crafted article. Many thanks.

[OneBlueSky]

4. puts American "journalism" to shame . . . recommended . . . n/t

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[Skidmore]

5. The policies of */Cheney are a clear indication of all the

"should" conversations that must have occured in the petroleum industry boardrooms and conference rooms over the decades. In these 2 men, the oilkings finally found a voice and a way to order the world the way they believed it would work best for them. They forgot that a whole lot of others live on the planet too--some of whom may not agree with their priorities. Yes, the world is speaking clearly now. Our nation has been so weakened and demoralized, the greed of big oil may very well have destroyed us.