The official beginning of the Iraqi Civil War in Samarrah and Ted Koppel's illuminating editorial about the history of US/British involvement in the "Big Game" of Middle East oil in the NYT today got me thinking. We Koskies have known all along it was about the oil, but could the neo-cons finally be learning that in the big game, realpolitik trumps ideology?
stay tuned for more details...
So today, the UAE is our staunch ally the GWOT. A few months ago cwazy Quaddafi was brought into a big Bush embrace. Are rational thoughts finally penetrating the buncombe artists' bunker? Did Big Dick's lost weekend shooting shock him into recovering his long-lost senses?
This is a totally unlikely, but, I'm sick and tired of imputing the worst motives to our Commander-In-Thief and his Department of Vice Maybe, just maybe, the Bushkeviks have finally learned the limits of their power and are ready to scale back - just as the rest of the world plummets into the fiery pit of religious warfare and apocalypse.
The blow up of the mosque in Samarra and the blowing away of hundreds of Sunni mosques in retaliation has got to give even the craziest pro-occupation pol (can you say Joe Lieberman?) pause about plans to maintain any kind of long-term military presence in Mess'o Potamia. The long term bases diaried yesterday, which are clearly built to replace the ones in the kingdom of Saud, are small islands, city-states (think Andorra or San Marino) in the sea of the new Islamic caliphate spawning and spanning the fertile crescent from the Kabul to Cairo. The Army will withrdaw from Iraqi society, doing nothing but insuring a free flow of oerl - i mean oil - from Baghdad to Alabama.
Fuggedabotit! They're just a stupid and venal as they've always been. They LOVE the idea of the rapture - specially that dumb one with the speech impediment and the chin tic. The rest of 'em are old enough they figure they'll be dead soon enuff anyway. It was fun trying to take the other side for a change.
Sorry for the inscruatble (can you say "incoherent"?) nature of this diary. I have opinions on everything - several on most - and sometimes i just feel like writin'...