The ongoing discussion of when, and how, and with what rationale the United States will withdraw from Iraq floats in an atmosphere of surrealism. The Bush administration, and its neocon plotters and enablers, never intended to leave, ever. Oh, of course they futilely fondled their rabbit's feet in hopes of a stable, friendly Iraq, but not because stability would permit them to leave, but because it would permit them to stay.
You don't build permanent military bases, construct the world's largest embassy and push the Iraqi parliament to pass legislation gifting the country's oil wealth to western corporations if you intention is to say "best wishes" and wave bye-bye as you retreat into the sunset. Sure, they did not expect a military occupation to be required, but you don't convene secret "energy-policy" meetings, months before 9/11, where maps of Iraq's oil fields are studied and lists of corporate suitors for its petroleum wealth are compiled, without the intention to remain and plunder.
Just because their rabbit's feet turned out to be the monkey's paw is no reason to carry on the current fantasy debate, based, apparently, on perpetuating the image of a white-hat America, saving the Iraqis from a brutal dictator who built luxury palaces while children starved, and spreading the flowers of democracy.
Meet the new boss...
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What sustains my dread is that all of this is common knowledge, people have become so complacent, and the arrogance of power so unwavering, that all efforts to put an end to it are blithely deflected like pesky but harmless gnats.
> Just because their rabbit's feet turned out to be the monkey's paw is no reason to carry on the current fantasy debate, based, apparently, on perpetuating the image of a white-hat America, saving the Iraqis from a brutal dictator who built luxury palaces while children starved, and spreading the flowers of democracy.
Wow. Love the way you put this.
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