The Illusion of Victory in Iraq.

[Warren Stupidity]

Note: I posted this earlier as a offhand comment in another thread. It ended up being a short essay on recent history. I'm trying to put together a coherent and easy to understand model - a brief history of the crisis that the neocon Cabal has plunged our republic and the world into. Essentially it is an attempt at a persuasive counterpoint to the establishment party line on the events of the last 6 years. (Actually I take this back to Gulf War I, which I believe is the actual start of the Oil Wars.) Mostly I've just edited some of the language and corrected the typos that I found. What I am trying to do is get something together that is Op-Ed and/or LTE worthy - that is vetted for accuracy, and that has no glaring logical or polemical flaws. This is basically a request for DU help in developing a coherent collective alternate history that we can start to push into the media stream.

The nation of Iraq is a fiction created by the British after WWI as they carved up the former Ottoman empire. It was the Brits who put the Sunni's in charge - using their typical colonial trick of anointing a minority tribe as the ruling elite making them dependent on British guns to stay in power. The cold war continued the arrangement, with the sunni dominated Baath party replacing the sunni monarchy and playing off the soviets and the americans for material support. The Iranian revolution tilted our hand in favor of more or less overt support of the Saddam dictatorship as a counter balance to shiite ascendancy in the region. But keep in mind that for the last 80 years, stability in Iraq has meant brutal suppression of shiite and kurdish nationalist aspirations, and this brutality has been executed with the tacit support of the various Great Power players in the region.

The final breakdown of Iraq started with Gulf Farce I - that odd war triggered by our apparent green light to Saddam for his Kuwaiti adventure, followed by our feigned shock and outrage that he did what he said he was going to do and which we indicated was of no interest to us; and the subsequent crushing of his army and destruction of his offensive capabilities. We left Saddam in power at the time as the Bush-I gang recognized that the sunni dictatorship continued to be a useful counter force to Iran.

What changed? Why did the neocons become obsessed with toppling Saddam? By 1998, with the infamous PNAC documents, including the letter to Clinton advocating overt regime change, The Cabal had mapped out a global strategy for world domination that had Iraq as its base of operations for control over the middle east oil fields, in what they saw as a world resource war between China and the US - the Oil Wars. As we know they needed some excuse for actuating this plan. 9-11 happened - what a coincidence - and the game was on.

Unfortunately the clowns in charge seemed to have missed the fact that Iraq was essentially a shiite region and that the real consequence of their invasion was going to be the creation of Greater Persia, of a shiite dominated mesopotamia, of a complete and total breakdown of the fictional nation of Iraq. Before our stupid invasion the shiite theocracy in Iran was losing control. It was in retreat: people were openly defying the idiotic religious laws and reform candidates were in control of the nominal government. Since the invasion the theocracy is back on top, and is now poised to dominate the region and deliver a crushing humiliating blow to our neocon nonsense.

There is no nation of Iraq. We can recognize that now, or we can recognize it later, at a cost of approximately 1,000 soldiers and $250B per year for our refusal to accept reality. At some point we will realize that we cannot stay in Iraq, that there will be no friendly government to yield up the permanent base agreements that were the reason for our invasion, that rather than being the staging grounds for our imperial domination of the region, for the destruction of the Syrian and Iranian regimes, we have destroyed what was left of the post WWI colonial structures and the region is going to realign itself into ethnic sunni, shiite and kurdish nations, and that those nations will control their own destiny and control their own resources.

We would be far better off putting that $250B/yr into alternative energy source research and development. We could then stop wasting the lives of our brave and dedicated soldiers for an illusion of victory that can never be achieved. That would be a strategy for a future america we could be proud to leave to the next generation.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. So little America left to leave to the next generation.... nt.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. I haven't given up. nt.

[enigma000]

2. It's a very good start - perhaps DUers can contribute n/t