SilentOtto
9/4/2008 5:50:00 AM
On Sep 3, 11:45 pm, Governor Swill <governor.sw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is SilentOtto's brain on drugs:
>
> >> Saddam took Iraq off the petrodollar. That couldn't be tolerated and
> >> explains much about how our support split in Europe. Germany and
> >> France have lots of euros. The Spanish and Italians not so much. The
> >> Brits don't use them but the Irish do.
>
> >Agreed.
>
> >Then there was the pay back when the Bush administration started
> >awarding contracts for rebuilding Iraq, and how they publicly declared
> >that they were going to freeze out most of Europe.
Three different replies to one post?
Well... I suppose you've your reasons.
> The Saudis are our BFFs. Yet somehow, they've ended up having to
> watch Iranian power grow in the region. Either Iran's resurgence onto
> the world stage is a shocking and humiliating series of unintended
> consequences of the Iraq War or the neocons and Cheney have
> constructed an elaborate charade against the Saudis and within the
> Muslim world. After all, what better way to divide Moslems than to
> pretend to help the majority while actually boosting the underdog?
I don't think the NeoCons are that clever. They've been following a
pretty straight forward big stick sort of foreign policy and only
deviate from it when they absolutely have to.
I think they really believed their rhetoric about the ease of removing
Saddam and being greeted as liberators.
Once Saddam was gone and Iraq a stable democracy filled with permanent
U.S. bases to Iran's east, with a similar situation in the west in
Afghanistan and with a NATO state to the north in Georgia and U.S.
friendly states to their northeast in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan,
Iran would be surrounded by U.S. military force. That would give the
reformers in Iran the confidence they needed to take on the hard
liners, with U.S. backing and support, and win.
Russia, which has been similarly surrounded, engages in a lot of
bluster, but is basically impotent in the face of the U.S. strategic
advantage.
Democracy breaks out all over the Middle East and it's happy-happy-joy-
joy into the golden sunrise of U.S. style corporate capitalism under
U.S. global hegemony.
Republicans are hailed as heroes by the American people and they
secure their permanent hold on the U.S. government.
George W. Bush's head is carved into Mt. Rushmore.