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Iraq Study Group vs. real world
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by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News
Dec. 8, 2006
An interesting "connect-the-dots" factoid: on Wednesday, Dec. 6, the
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day the Iraq Study Group's report was released, the price of gold dropped by about $12 an ounce. That may reflect a "war premium" built into the price of gold, which I say because for that one day there was a certain amount of optimism that a quick end to the Iraq War is possible.
By Thursday however, President Bush and politicians of both parties had spoken and gold rose in price again, though by a smaller amount. Which I took as a sign that the
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war -- and the ongoing decline and fall of Empire America -- will continue at least until 2009.
There would surely be a peace dividend, if obstinate, delusional and bought-off politicians were determined to put America in a state of peace. Who would want to own gold,
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which pays no interest and produces nothing if not for the fact that gold provides a comforting illusion of safety?
A few other points...
#1 Semantics -- if the ISG's report is so frank and refreshingly truthful about Iraq then why are we referring to the Iraqi combatants as "insurgents", still? The battle has been a resistance movement from the beginning, not a rebellion against an established order; the puppet regime set up by the U.S. in Iraq has never provided order and they never will. Not unless they are willing to engage in a genocidal war against the resistance (à la, "We will have our backers, the United States, completely destroy any town or village that does not submit to our authority!")
A huge majority of Iraqis want the U.S. to withdraw from Iraq very soon. That is not the sign of an "insurgency", but of a resistance movement.
And, in fact, the evolution of the war into "sectarian violence" may be laid at the feet of the U.S., which equipped and supported Iraqi death squads, like the Wolf Brigade. It is only natural that death squads provoked retaliation, just as American killings of Iraqi civilians have helped build support for the resistance. At this point the conflict can only be solved by repayment of blood debts and American withdrawal. We cannot defeat an enemy that is willing to commit suicide attacks -- unless we are willing to commit genocide. If the Iraqis wish to fight a civil war the U.S. cannot stop them. We are provoking the war, not ending it.
#2 Training -- every politician in the U.S. talks about the need to "train" Iraqi troops and police. That makes no sense. The armed forces in Iraq do not lack "training". What they lack are military discipline and military effectiveness. These shortcomings are due to the fact that a) the Iraqi soldiers and police are not obedient to a unified Iraqi command, but instead operate as part of the militias and death squads; and b) the U.S. has been unwilling to allow the Iraqis to obtain enough weapons -- and control -- to be militarily effective.
The essence of the situation is that the U.S. is justifiably afraid of attempting occupation in the midst of a fully armed Iraqi military under the control of Iraqi leaders; odds would seem to favor that Iraqi army being used against the U.S.!
#3 Israel, Palestine, Iran, Syria, etc. -- the ISG's suggestion about building peace regionally was right on target. If the U.S. does not rein in Israel and
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commit to allowing the peoples of the Middle East their god given right to self-determination without U.S. domination, there will be no peace. Given the Israel lobby's control over both the Democratic and Republican parties, there will be no peace.
Peace cannot happen as long as the U.S. continues to subsidize Israel's belligerence and war making capabilities. We pay Israel billions of dollars each year and in exchange they provoke the Islamic world to resistance.
I have to wonder if the U.S. government is even serious about "peace". There is far too much oil and natural gas in the Middle East for the U.S. to allow self-determination by the peoples of the region. With U.S. military bases in more than 100 different countries, how can we claim to be interested in "peace". We have a War Department, not a Defense Department.
I will go even further: I doubt the American government's commitment to the U.S. Constitution. You merely need to review the way that the U.S. government treats its prisoners and "enemies" to see that they have no respect for human rights. Torture, death squads, secret gulags, etc., are all evidence of a fundamental disconnect between the government and the Constitution. As GWB once said, "It is just a goddamned piece of paper."
The idea that these government leaders like GWB are "Christians" is just as ludicrous -- their actions have profaned every religious tenet, even as they have spat upon the Bill of Rights. These people will say anything, profess any allegiance or belief in order to get elected. If 51% of Americans were communists GWB would be quoting Mao's Little Red Book. Our leaders are total hypocrites, among their other faults.
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At this point the conflict can only be solved by repayment of blood debts and American withdrawal.
We cannot defeat an enemy that is willing to commit suicide attacks -- unless we are willing to commit genocide.
If the Iraqis wish to fight a civil war the U.S. cannot stop them.
We are provoking the war, not ending it.
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