Raimondo's article is asking questions that I've been asking myself. Our Iraq venture is efficiently provoking a new world war, the Global War on Terror. In fact, if you step back and look at the overall sequence of events and the players involved, it almost seems designed to do just that. These are the same folks (PNAC, etc.) who lamented the end of the Cold War, after all...
I consider this a "must read" article.
Blowback in Iraq
The U.S. invasion empowered Iran: was that the agenda all along?
by Justin Raimondo
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The creation of a Shi'ite mega-state in the heart of the Middle East has the entire region boiling over with religious and nationalistic antagonism, making it not only the seedbed of a worldwide Islamic insurgency directed against the U.S. but also the launching pad of a new global war, what the neocons call "World War IV." The triumph of revolutionary Shi'ism in Iraq was entirely predictable, so much so that one can only ask if the creation of a new "Islamic Republic" by U.S. force of arms wasn't deliberate, rather than the outcome of sheer incompetence and ignorance. Could the aim be to provoke a worldwide Shi'ite-Sunni civil war within Islam, so as to take the pressure off the West and Israel?
Surely our leaders aren't that crazy – are they?
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The Iranians didn't do it all by their lonesome selves, however: they had to have help inside the U.S. government. It wasn't just Chalabi, acting in tandem with Tehran, who lied us into war: his fellow liars, otherwise known as the neoconservatives, channeled disinformation to the White House, the Congress, and the American people, in an all-out campaign of deception waged on several fronts at once.
The War Party that dominates this administration is pursuing a course of "regime change" in the Middle East, part and parcel of what neoconservative guru Michael Ledeen calls a policy of "creative destruction" – essentially a plan to level, and remake, the entire region. Such a strategery would entail precisely the kind of "blowback" we are currently experiencing, at an ever-accelerated pace. A global reign of terror, state-sponsored as well as freelance, would be unleashed. Muslim communities everywhere would become the battlegrounds of an increasingly vicious internecine struggle, pitting both sides against the West as well as against each other. The London bombings, and those in Egypt, are only the beginning: by the end of it, most of the Middle East and even some parts of the West may lie in ruins. The War Party will be in the saddle, sweeping away all blame for having lied us into war in Iraq by generating a tidal wave of fear and jingoistic hysteria, wiping out what's left of our civil liberties with a spate of "emergency" measures that won't be repealed for a generation, if ever.
A bleak picture – yes. However, this scenario is still avoidable if we act now. We must get out of Iraq, and out of the Middle East, totally and without the least amount of hesitation. Unless we want to get caught up in the coming conflagration, we have no choice but to get out of the way. Do we really want to get sucked into a conflict with Iran and unite the Muslim world against us? We will not benefit one iota from such a mad policy. Instead, we will come to regret it just as surely as the majority of Americans now regret invading Iraq in the first place. This is no time for half-measures: it's out now, or we're out of luck.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6763
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