Re: Bush Backs Away From 2 Key Ideas of Panel on Iraq
On Dec 8, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
Bush’s invasion would then be a tactical, not strategic, mistake. The goal is to clean up the tactic while holding to the strategy of controlling mideast oil &
geopolitical importance.
Oh I agree that it’s a tactical, not a strategic mistake. But it’s
always possible that the U.S. could really be suffering a serious
defeat that ends in a reduction or even loss of “control” of Middle
East oil. What would happen, say, if a chain of chaotic events led to
the fall of the Saudi monarchy? All hell could break loose.
By the way, reading Patrick Cockburn’s book, which I’m doing in small
chunks, makes it clear that the sectarian & ethnic violence in Iraq
began almost immediately after Saddam fell. Lots of very bad shit was
bottled up under his reign.
Doug