Complete with the threat of falling dominoes and incursions into Pakistan.
http://watchingamerica.com/News/31072/the-empire-strikes-again/They’re gone. American troops are withdrawing from Iraqi cities, six years after entering, and hundreds of thousands of dead later.
After September 11th, the empire decided to crush the designated “Axis of Evil” along with any and all who stood in the way of American profits. Years of chaos ensued, with attacks ravaging local markets, battles among religious, ethnic and political factions, and ubiquitous pillaging.
The first to take their tithe were the American multinational corporations closest to Washington’s neoconservatives for whom the country was to be bled dry. Flurries of mercenaries, military strikes, and serial torture in American prisons. Certainly Saddam Hussein had fallen but the Iraqi infrastructure (and the country with it) has also collapsed.
From now until August 2010, 50,000 combat units will leave Iraq but new troops will be dispatched to Afghanistan, where a coalition army (including some French soldiers) has been entangled for years. The Taliban has finally defeated coalition troops in the region after years of occupation and has successfully reinvigorated the message of Islamic fundamentalists in the area. Put other actors into the mix and one quagmire follows another.
The legitimacy of the American superpower has been called into question. The capitalist policeman has shown itself to be nothing more than an insatiable oaf and the economic crisis has thrown light on the wasted resources and human lives that lay by the wayside of American progress. This constant push for profit at any cost- even war-has become too much of a threat to our planet for us to put up with the empire any longer.
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