JAMES KUNSTLER: Heating Up, Melting Down

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James Kunstler -- Clusterfuck Nation

If the stakes weren't so high, and the situation weren't so tragic, you'd have to laugh at the latest U.S.-French attempt to craft a Middle East cease fire. They announced it as though they had jointly tackled the world's most difficult Sudoku puzzle -- and then about five minutes later Hezbollah and the Lebanese government both blew it off.

So much for the conceit that the Great Powers can control this thing.

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It is interesting to hear U.S. politicians call for "bringing the troops home," because there seems to be absolutely no consideration of, okay, what happens then? What happens, I think, is that Iraq implodes into three sectors, Iran comes into virtual ownership of Iraq's Shia-controlled southern oilfields, and Iran decides to sell that oil to China, or in some manner withhold it from the U.S. market. American peace activists would suddenly find it more difficult to drive to their meetings.

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1. how snide of Kunstler - american peace activistis would meet regardless

of how they gathered.